About the Authors

Jingyu Jiang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mine, Faculty of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China, National Engineering Research Center for Coal & Gas Control, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

Yuanping Cheng

chengypcumt@163.com

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mine, Faculty of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China, National Engineering Research Center for Coal & Gas Control, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

Junhui Mou

Affiliations National Engineering Research Center for Coal & Gas Control, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China, State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

Kan Jin

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mine, Faculty of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

Jie Cui

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mine, Faculty of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

Competing Interests

National Engineering Research Center for Coal and Gas Control of the China University of Mining and Technology has developed a test device called the methane desorption kinetics characteristics test device of coals of water injection under high pressure. Patent name (Moisture test methods applied containing gas desorption characteristics of coal) and number (CN 102053141 B). Please see appendix. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The holder of the invention are Yuanping Cheng(程远平), Dongmei Wu(吴冬梅), Haibo Liu(刘海波) and Jingyu Jiang(蒋静宇) who work full-time in the National Engineering Research Center for Coal and Gas Control of the China University of Mining and Technology.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ YC. Performed the experiments: JJ JM. Analyzed the data: JJ YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJ JC. Wrote the paper: JJ.