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Acronym:
REM
Title:
Reduction of methane emissions from post mining goafs to minimise their inflow into VAM
Duration:
01.02.2023 - 31.07.2027
Project coordinator:Główny Instytut Górnictwa - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (GIG-PIB), Poland
Aleksander Wrana
Department of Extraction Technologis, Rockburst and Risk Assessment
e-mail: awrana@gig.eu
tel: +48 32 259 2307
Description:
The REM project is the largest EU grant to go to the Polish mining industry, with the budget more than €21 million. It is an international project, which won first place in the Coal and Steel Research Fund's "Big Tickets" call launched in 2022. The project's goal is to determine the possibility of obtaining methane from the goafs of an active mine and the construction of a drainage system for a reduced concentration of methane in the captured gas. At the "Pniówek" coking coal mine, owned by Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, the world's first innovative installation will be built to reduce methane emissions into the atmosphere from abandoned areas of a working mine. Methane extracted from post-mining goafs will be used to produce electricity in specially designed gas engines, connected to power generators. The solutions tested in this project will ultimately be introduced in all JSW mines. They can also be successfully used in any methane underground coal mine characterized by a multi-seam deposit.
The project consortium was formed by the following partners:
- GŁÓWNY INSTYTUT GÓRNICTWA (GIG), Poland
- INSTYTUT NAFTY I GAZU - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY (INIG- PIB),Poland
- JASTRZEBSKA SPOLKA WEGLOWA SA (JSW), Poland
- PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT GEOLOGICZNY - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY (PIG – PIB), Poland
- UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO (UNIOVI), Spain
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU SECURITATE, MINIERASI PROTECTIE ANTIEXPLOZIVA INSEMEX PETROSANI (INSEMEX), Romania
The official website of the REM project is: www.rem.gig.eu
