FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Estimation of operational water reserves of intakes for drinking purposes

- Evaluation of hydrodynamic parameters of water intakes for drinking purposes and predictive assessment of groundwater operational reserves

- Designing the rational layouts for water extraction wells regarding to the hydrodynamic features of exploited aquifers

- Assessment of feasibility to renovate the available drinking water intakes, provided their operational reserves are kept

Developing the effective schemes to control water flows during mining operations under complex hydrogeological conditions

- Study of hydrodynamic and hydrochemical conditions on the lands affected by open pit and underground mining

- Evaluation of regularities of man-changed water exchange on the sites disturbed by underground mining and open pits

- Development of the effective schemes to control water flows for different methods of extracting minerals under complex hydrogeological conditions

Modeling ground water flow during underground and open pit mining of mineral deposits

- Development and identification of numerical groundwater flow models for mineral deposits exploited by underground and open pit mining

- Numerical studies of regularities typical for water inflows to underground mines and open pits under complex hydrogeological conditions

- Rationale of parameters of drainage and dewatering systems during underground and open pit exploitation of mineral deposits

Justification of geotechnical parameters and the algorithm to control stability of soil slopes on large city territory

- Development and identification of numerical models reproducing geo-mechanical conditions of unstable soil slopes on urban areas

- Evaluation of geotechnical parameters to control the stability of soil sites within the framework of geo-monitoring system

- Design and elaboration of engineering protective measures and predictive assessment of their effectiveness

Justification of the patterns for fastening soil sites on the areas to be built up

- Studying physical and mechanical and water storage properties of specific soils and rocks within the sites intended for building

- Modeling stress-strain state of unstable soil slopes in terms of their load carrying capacity; assessment of the factor of safety

- Justification of the patterns for fastening soil sites on the areas to be built up and effectiveness assessment

Prediction and control of water and gas flows in mines while closing mining operations

- Development of numerical models for methane emission and seepage in a mine regarding to the spatial location of underground excavations and water recharge sources

- Numerical studying the dynamics of water inflows to underground mines and methane emissions for the lifetime of the mine from the exploitation beginning to the closure

- Justification of the safe mode of flooding coal mines as well as underground and open pit mining near flooded excavations

Estimation of saturated soil layer stability in the zone affected by mining facilities

- Assessment of hydrodynamic and hydrochemical conditions on the areas affected by mining facilities

- Study of driving forces lowering the geo-mechanical stability of soil layers as the after-effect of man-made changes in hydrodynamic and hydrochemical conditions

- Elaboration of engineering measures to increase the stability of disturbed soil layers in the zone affected by mining facilities

Hydrodynamic and geo-mechanical justification of rock waterproof properties in underground mining of coal deposits

- Studying the driving forces forming waterproof properties of rocks in underground mining of coal deposits

- Theoretical and experimental study of the mining safe depth below water bodies

- Elaboration of mining engineering measures to reduce man-made impacts on underground waters

Justification of rational engineering measures to ensure the stability of water saturated soil slopes on landslide sites

- Simulation of flow and stress and strain conditions on landslide areas under artificial pulse hydrodynamic impact

- Laboratory studies of physical and mechanical properties of soils and soil-cement mixture used for fastening under 3D stress

- Evaluation of the parameters of technologies for soil-cement fastening of landslide slopes and the effectiveness assessment

Hydrodynamic justification of water-regulating activities on industrially charged areas

- Evaluation of the impact of the man-made component in groundwater flow changes on the areas studied

- Evaluation of hydrological and hydrodynamic parameters for water-regulating technologies on the base of numerical modeling results

- Predictive assessment of the efficiency of water-regulating technologies applied to industrially charged sites

Evaluation of flow parameters of rocks affected by underground coal gasification

- Physical modeling the effect of permeability and water saturation of rocks on accumulation of gasification products

- Studying the driving forces of condensate displacement in a gasification channel during coal gasification

- Elaboration of the technological scheme of underground coal gasification with simultaneous extraction of condensate

Controlling flow and stress and strain conditions of disturbed rocks and coal seams treated by underground gasification

- Laboratory studies to evaluate flow properties of rocks depending on their stress and strain state

- Numerical modeling flow and stress and strain state of rocks affected by underground coal gasification

- Elaboration of technological patterns for controlling flow and stress and strain conditions of rocks disturbed by underground coal gasification

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