Frontiers in Earth Science (Jan 2023)

Dynamic optimization of open-pit coal mine production scheduling based on ARIMA and fuzzy structured element

  • Guangwei Liu,
  • Weiqiang Guo,
  • Ensan Fu,
  • Ensan Fu,
  • Chuanda Yang,
  • Jiaming Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1040464
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10

Abstract

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A dynamic optimization method was created to address the production schedule issue in an open-pit coal mine while taking into account the characteristics of the fuzzy structured element. The fuzzy mining capacities of all “geologically optimal push-back bodies” were then examined using the moving cove method. One of the most crucial elements in the process of open-pit coal mine production scheduling optimization is coal pricing. As a result, this work also presents a dynamic optimization technique for production scheduling that incorporates the prediction of economic time series and the generation of dynamic economic indices. An appropriate time series model is created to forecast the future coal price based on previous data on coal prices. The prediction results are used in the calculation of optimal mining body generation to dynamically obtain the optimal production scheduling model. The Baorixile Open-pit Coal Mine in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is using this method. The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model ARIMA is constructed to anticipate the coal price in the future 23 years by evaluating and processing the coal price from 2009 to 2022, and the ideal production scheduling scheme of the mine economics is afterwards identified. The ideal fuzzy coal mining volume, the potential production life, and the fuzzy total net present value (NPV) of the annual production scheduling are all provided at the same time. The optimization findings can better give fundamental support for mine design and future production since the fuzzy problem is accurately expressed by correct formulations.

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