METHOD OF TUNNELLING IN ROCKS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC E21D9/00 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: method of tunnelling is characterised by the fact that rocks are broken at a bottomhole with a fluid working agent under pressure, at the same time mines and wells are arranged along the perimetre and along the frontal area of the bottomhole; the distance between these mines is chosen with account of breaking action at rocks with a reheated gas or steam-gas working agent under pressure, which is generated with a multi-module jet plant and its working devices, and also extended elastic tubular elements are used, filled with an energy composition that generates a reheated agent under high pressure, with the help of which the specified mines and wells are arranged in the rock massif; the massif is damaged and ground. The bottomhole is cleaned by pressure at the bottomhole end to damaged parts of the rock massif with a working medium in the form of reheated steam-gas phases under pressure.

EFFECT: efficient complex action at a bottomhole with higher efficiency, lower labour and power inputs.

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