China Coal Manglai (Sunit Left Banner) Mining Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine) is affiliated to China Coal Energy Group Co., Ltd. and is located in the Baiyinwula Kuangqu Mining Area of Sunit Left Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is a large-scale open-pit coal mine integrating coal production and sales. The Kuangqu area is 15.627 square kilometers, with resource reserves of 475 million tons; the reserve resource area is 18.344 square kilometers, with resource reserves of 435 million tons; the total resource reserves are 910 million tons, and the production capacity is 10 million tons/year.
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine has always regarded green mine construction as an important strategic goal for enterprise development, and actively practices the concept that clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. By continuously increasing investment, improving production processes, optimizing production layout, effectively fulfilling the responsibilities of central enterprises, we will go all out to ensure safety, production, and supply, and promote the coordinated development of resource development and environmental protection.
In October 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission agreed to adjust the construction scale of Manglai open-pit coal mine and supporting coal preparation plant from 5 million tons/year to 10 million tons/year; in the same month, the production capacity contained in the mining license was updated to 10 million tons/year. In 2023, the 10 million tons/year adjustment construction scale project of Manglai Open Pit Coal Mine has passed special inspections such as safety facilities, occupational disease protection facilities, environmental protection, individual project quality certification, and comprehensive completion pre-acceptance. The project successfully passed the completion acceptance in November of that year.
Manglai open-pit coal mine silo
Prioritize ecology and paint a beautiful picture
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine adheres to the concept of "ecological priority and green development" and integrates the concept of building a green mine throughout production and construction. Since 2019, green mine construction projects such as Kuangqu management, environmental protection, and intelligent construction have been vigorously implemented, and the slopes, flats, and goaf of the dump have been trimmed and backfilled. The internal and external dump yards are reclaimed and greening by covering topsoil, sowing grass seeds by aerial sowing, microalgae intervention, laying willow bars, adding willow sand barriers, and adding irrigation facilities. As of 2023, a total of 64.9 million yuan has been invested, and the area under management is about 9320 acres. More than 24,000 trees such as elms, mountain peaches, sugar maple, and golden leaf elms are planted on the main roads and maintenance roads of the Kuangqu.
This year, Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine continues to increase investment in green mine construction and efforts to restore and control the ecological environment of the Kuangqu. In accordance with the requirements of green mine construction, the specific standards for tree planting and greening in the Kuangqu mining area, reclamation and greening of the inner dump, greening of the outer dump and slope management have been clarified. The annual planned ecological management area is about 3800 acres, including 1700 acres for the inner dump and 2100 acres for the north and outer dump, with more than 1400 trees planted. The investment is approximately 35.3 million yuan.
In response to the natural conditions of drought and water shortage in Sunit Left Banner, Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine cooperated with the Inner Mongolia Academy of Forestry Sciences to introduce microalgae vegetation restoration technology and strive to build a microalgae technology mine management demonstration base. In accordance with the green mine evaluation standards, we strive to be included in the green mine list of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region within this year.
Technology leads to improve production efficiency
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine aims at the forefront of industry development, continuously increases scientific and technological innovation, and improves the intelligent level of coal production. In 2021, Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine obtained the National High-tech Enterprise Certificate. According to the "Implementation Plan for Three-Year Plan for Intelligent Construction of Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine", 41 intelligent construction projects were carried out with a total investment plan of 81.6687 million yuan, of which 32 were included in the preliminary design of Manglai Coal Mine of 10 million tons/year, with an investment plan of 64.4287 million yuan; 3 technological transformation projects with an investment plan of 7.69 million yuan; 6 informatization projects with an investment plan of 9.55 million yuan, with a cumulative investment of 63.3754 million yuan.
The first is the integration of new momentum into infrastructure. High-quality construction has completed the network center computer room, 10G industrial ring network, computing power data center, 5G private network, and dispatching large-screen display system, which has opened up blocking points for information transmission, achieved data resource management, and improved network stability. and security, multiple data integration in main production links, and visual display of analysis results.
Second, intelligent mining and stripping have achieved new results. The construction has completed the renewal and centralized control of equipment and facilities such as hydraulic tensioning of belt conveyors, caliper disc brakes, iron remover, protective devices and workshop lighting in the ground storage and loading system. The installation of online flaw detection and longitudinal tear detection systems for conveyor belts and centralized equipment lubrication system, intelligent inspection robot application, effectively ensure the normal operation of the transportation system, timely detect and warn potential safety hazards, realize remote operation of two crushing stations, remote loading of trains and cars, And fixed inspection positions are unattended.
The third is to achieve new breakthroughs in intelligent security. An unmanned measurement system for production and sales has been built, optimized the weighing personnel, realized unmanned measurement of production and sales, automatically calculated coal production, sales, and stock, and generated reports. Introduce non-power-changing electric mining cards and intelligent driverless technology. The construction of remote centralized control systems for distribution rooms and box-type substations and water and electricity energy consumption monitoring systems has been completed, realizing the "five remotes" of the power supply and distribution system. Build and adopt a remote centralized control system for water prevention and drainage, production and domestic water intake to achieve unmanned duty. The application of drone aerial survey systems has greatly improved the efficiency of reading measurement and settlement, gradually realized the upgrading of quality from "human control" to "numerical control", and the intelligent transformation from "few people" to "no one".
Fourth, intelligent security management and control have entered a new track. The construction of a smart truck dispatching system and a vehicle fatigue and collision prevention safety system has been completed; the video surveillance system has been integrated and upgraded, and electronic fences have been delineated in key and key areas to achieve early warning of intrusions and hidden dangers. Install GNSS and slope monitoring radars to achieve full coverage of slope monitoring in mining areas. Build a safety information management platform to achieve "double pre-control" and dynamic self-evaluation of the production safety standardized management system. Build cable trench and bridge optical fiber temperature measurement systems to ensure fire safety; install coal seam spontaneous combustion warning dual-vision PTZ in mining areas to achieve coal seam spontaneous combustion warning.
In the next step, Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine will introduce three-dimensional video fusion and panoramic video splicing technology to build a sky real-life platform for the open-pit coal mine. Integrate the existing 4 slope radars and 45 GNSS to build a slope early warning system that integrates the "sky-air-ground" multi-source data of open-pit mines. In accordance with the requirements of the national coal mine intelligent acceptance standards, the Manglai Smart Park will be built, striving to accelerate the construction of intermediate intelligent demonstration mines in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and moving towards national-level intelligent mines.
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine continues to promote the construction of a standardized production safety management system to meet standards. Through sorting out and analyzing the organization, process control, continuous improvement and other aspects of the daily standardization construction process, we find out deficiencies, summarize problems and formulate continuous improvement measures. In 2023, we will organize and hold 12 standardization construction promotion meetings and 12 monthly self-assessments and self-inspections to dynamically maintain the level of construction of the first-level production safety standardized management system.
Vegetation restoration and management of the outer dump of Manglai open-pit coal mine
Energy conservation and emission reduction, protect clear water and clear water
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine actively promotes the construction of "two joint ventures" demonstration bases, and has built a 5MW photovoltaic project for ecological management of the dump. The installed capacity on the AC side of the project reaches 5MW and the capacity on the DC side is 6.03174MWp. 10868 photovoltaic modules are installed and equipped with 15 sets of 320kW inverters adopt the power generation principle of "spontaneous self-use and surplus electricity connected to the Internet", which are mainly used for the power demand of the loading lines and production lines of the ground storage and loading system of the coal preparation plant. The total investment of the project is 26.2850497 million yuan, and the investment cost per unit wattage is 4.3577 yuan. It can provide 9 - 10 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity every year. The project combines green energy substitution in the Kuangqu mining area with ecological environment restoration and management. Compared with thermal power generation units, it can save about 3000 tons of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 8000 tons per year. Compared with purchasing electricity online, each ton of coal produced can save 1.07 yuan in electricity bills, and 25% of the remaining electricity can be online, increasing income by about 500,000 yuan.
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine actively responded to the strategic deployment of the "public railway" to adjust the transportation structure, and optimized the "public railway" transportation structure with the core of reducing road traffic volume and increasing railway traffic volume. In 2023, the container transportation coal volume will be 1.1054 million tons, reaching 24% of railway shipments, further accelerating the implementation of the "public to railway" policy, demonstrating the corporate responsibility to win the battle to defend the blue sky.
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine continues to improve energy utilization efficiency, reduce wastewater and waste emissions, and conduct real-time monitoring of dust, noise, harmful gases, etc. According to the approval opinion of the Haihe Water Conservancy Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources on the 10-million-ton Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine project, three new mechanized wells were built on the basis of the original mechanized wells, effectively solving the water problem in the Kuangqu mining area. Domestic sewage is treated by an integrated sewage device, and after treatment, it is used for ground watering for dust reduction and greening, achieving harmless and zero-emission of wastewater resources. Environmental protection facilities such as dust and suppression nets are installed in the crushing station and loading system, which effectively protects and improves the ecological environment, and achieves road hardening, environmental beautification, Kuangqu lighting, and sewage purification. A modern garden-style mine is present deep in the grassland.
Harmony comes, focusing on green mine construction
Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine adheres to the "party building leadership culture and cultural leadership management", focuses on the company's reform and development, major activities, key projects, advanced typical figures, etc., and vigorously promotes the company's important achievements. Organize party members and league members to record micro-party classes, shoot green mine promotional videos, and edit the journal "Manglai Ji". The mascot "Manglai Baobao" with company characteristics was designed to make the goal of "ensuring supply, production and safety" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Mascot dolls, key chains, mobile phone brackets and other cultural and creative products were also made based on the mascot. Carry out in-depth publicity and education activities, use office platforms, portal websites, publicity windows, display boards and posters and other platforms to vigorously publicize the achievements of enterprise reform and development, guide employees to recognize the situation, strengthen their confidence, further enhance their sense of urgency, responsibility and mission, and effectively Gather wisdom and strength into various tasks and goals of enterprise reform and development, forming a good situation in which the top and bottom work together and seek common development.
We continued to carry out the practical activities of "I do practical things for the masses" and improved the service level for employees through the "four basic constructions" measures of entertainment, food, housing and transportation. We successively invested more than 20 million yuan to build a basketball court, badminton court, and movie theater., Smart canteen, employee bookstore, billiard hall, and garage are equal to one employee activity area. Among them, the staff library has more than 600 books, and the cinema can accommodate more than 110 people at the same time. Renovate dormitory buildings and set up visiting rooms for employees, improve the accommodation environment of workers, and create a beautiful "employee home". Pay medical mutual aid insurance for employees, and pay Xinkang insurance especially for female employees to share the fruits of enterprise development with employees. Carry out in-depth activities such as technological innovation, skills competitions, cultural and sports for employees, provide assistance and assistance in difficulties, and enhance employees 'sense of security, belonging, gain, and happiness.
In the future, Manglai Open-pit Coal Mine will continue to write a new chapter in ecological and green development, strive to create a "green, intelligent, high-quality and standardized" sample open-pit coal mine, making the China Coal brand a new benchmark for grassland mines.
Published in the sixth page of "China Environment News" on October 17, 2024