Authors: S.A. Zhironkin, M.E. Konovalova, O.V. Zhironkina, A.V. Selyukov, G.D. Buyalich

Title of the article: Mining 5.0 as a technological platform for coal extraction in the fourth energy transition

Year: 2024, Issue: 6, Pages: 120-132

Branch of knowledge: 2.8.8 Geotechnology, mining machines

Index UDK: 622.235

DOI: 10.26730/1999-4125-2024-6-120-132

Abstract: The article analyzes the role of Mining 5.0, a technological platform of the upcoming Fifth Industrial Revolution in the solid mineral extraction industries, in the implementation of a “seamless” Fourth Energy Transition, at the end of which renewable energy sources are expected to dominate in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to reducing the negative impact on the climate and ensuring access to cheap energy. The article considers human-centric digital technologies characteristic of Mining 5.0 (industrial Internet of Everything, Digital Twins and Triplets of physical processes, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Robots, etc.), which, when combined with traditional geotechnology (surface, underground), allow to radically increase labor productivity and reduce production costs, as well as reduce the negative impact on the environment, primarily greenhouse gas emissions. The need for technological transformation of coal mining to the level of Mining 5.0 is substantiated in order to prevent energy supply shocks, primarily in developing countries that are at the stage of accelerated industrialization with increasing energy consumption. The authors associate the increasing role of coal in the transition to renewable energy with the growth of its availability on a global scale, largely due to the improvement of its mining technologies on a new digital basis, up to the transition from unmanned machines and mechanisms to smart robotization of mining enterprises and production chains for the extraction, enrichment and primary processing of fossil fuels

Key words: Mining 50 geotechnology Industry 50 coal mining Fourth Energy Transition

Receiving date: 02.10.2024

Approval date: 22.11.2024

Publication date: 05.12.2024

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