煤型铀矿床流态化协同开采工艺研究

Research on Fluidization Synergetic Mining Technology of Uranium Bearing Coal Deposit

  • 摘要: 煤型铀矿床是一种重要的非常规铀矿资源,在我国分布广泛,其载体煤储层以低阶煤为主,矿体具有“小、贫、散”的特点,工程地质条件普遍复杂。采用传统的“开采—发电—供热—提铀”综合利用模式,存在经济效益差、技术要求高、开采危险性大、工作环境差等问题。为此,融合煤炭地下气化、原地浸出采铀和地下水修复等技术,提出了煤型铀矿床流态化协同开采工艺,并构建了工艺系统和工艺流程。理论分析确定了地下气化温度和溶浸液种类等关键技术参数,并以U型炉和盲孔炉为例,阐述了新工艺的具体实施过程。最后,结合新工艺特点,从地质构造、水文地质、矿体赋存条件、矿物特性和开采技术条件等5个方面选取了24个关键指标,并确定了各指标的适宜性等级划分及其对应指标值范围。该工艺可实现煤型铀矿床资源的安全、高效、绿色协同开采,对于缓解我国天然铀供需矛盾和促进资源综合利用具有重要意义。

     

    Abstract: Uranium−bearing coal deposits are an important unconventional uranium resource with abundant reserves in China, which has not been fully exploited for a long time. In order to realize the cooperative mining of coal and uranium in uranium−bearing coal deposits, we did an analysis of the occurrence characteristics of uranium−bearing coal deposits in China and the problems in the traditional mining method. We then proposed a fluidization synergetic mining technology for these deposits, and clarified the urgent problems that need to be solved in the research of new technology. Uranium−bearing coal deposits are widely distributed in China, mainly occurring in the coal measures of Carboniferous Permian, Cenozoic and Jurassic. The carrier coal reservoir of coal type uranium is mainly composed of low rank stone coal, lignite and long flame coal, and the uranium in coal is mainly organic. The ore body is characterized as small, poor and scattered, and the engineering geological conditions are generally complex. The traditional comprehensive utilization mode of mining − power generation − heating − uranium extraction has many problems, such as poor economic benefits, high tunneling rate, difficult selection of mining technology, difficult maintenance of surrounding rock, high risk and poor working environment. For this reason, the technologies of coal underground mining, in−situ leaching uranium mining and groundwater remediation were integrated, and the fluidization synergetic mining technology of uranium−bearing coal deposits was proposed, and the process system and process flow were constructed. In order to give consideration to the recovery rate of coal and uranium resources, the underground gasification temperature should be controlled below 1000 ℃, and acid leaching solution should be used to extract uranium. Taking the two basic types of underground gasification furnace_the most common U−type gasifier and the blind well gasifier as examples, the specific implementation process of the new process was described. Combined with the characteristics of the new process, 24 key indicators were selected from 5 aspects, such as geological structure, hydrogeology, ore body occurrence conditions, mineral characteristics, and mining technical conditions, and a preliminary evaluation indicator system framework of fluidization collaborative mining site selection was established. This technology enables the safe, efficient and environmentally friendly mining of uranium−bearing coal deposits, which is of great significance to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of natural uranium and promote the comprehensive utilization of resources.

     

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