Study of Methods and Development of Technological Scheme for Heat Removal from Rock Waste Dump

The aim of this paper is to study the methods and develop technological scheme for
thermal energy removal from coal mine rock waste dumps. The prospects of renewable energy
sources development in Ukraine are analyzed. A number of available ways for using the sources of
waste heat of mining enterprises, namely: outlet ventilation flow, mine water and other rock waste
dumps, are investigated. The technological scheme of heat recovery from rock waste dump using
heat pumps, which are component segments of the heat pump geosystem on the basis of borehole
underground coal gasification, is developed.