|Bridging the Science, Economics and Politics of …...2010/10/08 · • Coal petrography • Remote Sensing • Thermal remote sensing for coal fire detection and monitoring •

|Bridging the Science, Economics and Politics of Coal Fires

Scientific conference organized by

Sino-German Coal Fire Research Initiative (CFRI) Innovative Technologies for Exploration, Extinction and Monitoring of Coal Fires in North China

www.coalfire.caf.dlr.de

ICCFR2 | Second International Conference on Coal Fire Research 19-21 May 2010 | dbb forum berlin, Berlin, Germany

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|Background – Objectives

* Quoted from First Call for Papers Published online on 21 December 2009

• Project Final Meeting to conclude eight years of successful bilateral research (2003-2010) Successor event to UNESCO conference at the end of first project phase in Beijing 2005

• Meeting place for the research community at large, bringing together diverse practitioners and stakeholders, including geologists, material scientists, geochemists and -physicists, remote sensing specialists, modellers, mining and fire fighting engineers, economists and policy-makers

“…take international scientific cooperation on the subject to a new integrated and interdisciplinary level!”*


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|Objectives – Achievements1

* Quote from one of the project's Chinese executives In e-mail communication after the conference

• Project Final Meeting with sizeable group from project partner China (30 participants), including – as a premiere for the project! – mining staff from coalfields in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia Project internal capacity building!

• Meeting place for 119 coal fire experts, representing all major global hotspots, such as China, India, South Africa, Australia, Russia, and the U.S.A. – 19 countries altogether! Significant participation from Eastern Europe and South East Asia, too!

“可以说是从事煤火工作人的一次盛会 – ‘This was a historical gathering for the research community.’”*


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|Objectives – Achievements2

Participation in absolute and percentage terms Figures as per DLR internal report, August 2010, Berlin, Germany

48%52%

Project Other

43%

25%

32%

Germany P.R. China Other

Country Participants Country Participants Germany 51 Vietnam 2 P.R. China 30 Australia 1 U.K. 5 Canada 1 U.S.A. 5 France 1 Czech Republic 4 Netherlands 1 Russia 4 Portugal 1 Poland 3 Romania 1 South Africa 3 Slovakia 1 India 2 Thailand 1

Spain 2 19 Countries 119 Participants


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|Layout: General vs. Specific

Table from First Call for Papers Published online on 21 December 2009

• Plenary sessions on days 1 and 3 to stake out the political and institutional framework of the conference – global tour d’horizon after opening; final zoom-in on CDM & Funding

• Parallel sessions on day 2 – markedly scientific in style and geared toward a detailed discussion of the phenomenon from the diverse angles of the disciplines involved


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|Content: Conference Topics1

Quoted from First Call for Papers Published online on 21 December 2009

• Overview • Spontaneous coal seam fires as a global phenomenon • Integrated fire management – case studies, lessons learned • Demands on research and politics for effective mitigation and

prevention • Geosciences

• Exploring coal fire extent by geological, geophysical, and geochemical means

• Long-term monitoring of extinct coal fires and endangered mining zones • GIS-based mapping and risk assessment methodologies


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• Materials Research • Coal fire reactions, ignition, inertization, heat- and mass balances • Exhaust gas measurements and condensates • Coal petrography

• Remote Sensing • Thermal remote sensing for coal fire detection and monitoring • Components of thermal land surface processes • Spectroscopic detection and quantification of coal fire products


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• Modeling • General challenges in modeling fire-induced transport • Recent developments in THMC modeling for geo-engineering • Applications for data interpretation, planning and decision making

processes • Fire Fighting

• Extinguishing effects and innovative fire fighting methods • Decision making process to identify endangered objects • International and national fire combating procedures


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• Mining • Mine design for effective prevention of coal fires • Mine development without coal fires • Coal fire detection and monitoring during mine operations

• CDM & Funding • Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from coal fires • Baseline estimation using field data • Benefits from political and industrial awareness of coal fires, CDM

alternatives


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|Content: Scientific Committee1

Quoted from Preliminary Program Published online on 15 April 2010

Mr. Cai Zhongyong Xinjiang Coalfield Fire Fighting Bureau (FFB), P.R. China Prof. Dr. Carsten Drebenstedt TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany Dr. Christian Fischer German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Dr. Ralf Fritschen DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Mr. Li Dong Vice-President of Shenhua Group Corporation Limited, P.R. China


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Dr. Li Jiahong National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC), P.R. China Prof. Li Jing Beijing Normal University (BNU), P.R. China Prof. Li Zhizhong China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and

Resources (AGRS), P.R. China Dr. Uwe Meyer Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany


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Dr. Horst Meyrahn RWE Power AG, Germany Prof. Dr. Horst Rüter HarbourDom GmbH, Germany Dr. Wu Jianjun Beijing Normal University (BNU), P.R. China


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|Content: Achievements1

Figures from Conference Guide Available from separate Documents folder

• 96 abstracts received until end of submissions on 14 March 2010 Reviewed and re-arranged by Scientific Committee into:

• 61 oral presentations • 29 posters

Distributed over: • 9 main sessions (Introduction, Overview, Materials Research,

Remote Sensing, Geosciences, Mining, Fire Fighting, Modeling, CDM & Funding) split in 2 blocks with 4 oral presentations each

• Poster presentations in between the blocks of a session


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|Content: Achievements2

* Printing and shipping fees apply. Please inquire with TUBAF for prices.

• Proceedings with more than 90 scientific articles: Drebenstedt, C., Fischer, C., Meyer, U., Wu, J.J., and Kong, B. (Eds.), 2010. Latest developments in

coal fire research. Bridging the science, economics, and politics of a global disaster. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Coal Fire Research (ICCFR2), 19-21 May 2010, Berlin, Germany. Institute of Mining and Special Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. (ISBN: 978-3-86012-397-3)

Available from* : Conference Secretariat Prof. Dr. Carsten Drebenstedt TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) Mining Institute Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 1A 09596 Freiberg ,Germany [email protected] T +49 3731 39-3482 F +49 3731 39-3581


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| ICCFR2: A Solid Bridge!

Presentation compiled by Geoffrey Schöning Private Consultant & Organizer of ICCFR and ICCFR2, Germany

Visual impressions from the conference available in separate Documents folder or from the project’s Internet platform:

www.coalfire.org