Abstract: In order to investigate the influence mechanism of temperature on the permeability of loose coal body in the process of spontaneous combustion of residual coal in the gob, the mathematical model of the permeability of coal body under different temperature conditions was established by considering the effects of temperature-induced adsorption deformation, thermal expansion deformation, thermal fission deformation and sliding effect, etc., and the parameters of the single influencing factors of the mathematical model of the permeability were controlled by the method of controlling variables to investigate the influence mechanism of the temperature change on the permeability of the loose coal body. Based on the principle of physical similarity, an experimental platform for loose coal seepage was designed and constructed, and anthracite coal from Chengzhuang Mine in Shanxi Province was selected as the experimental object, and air was used as the seepage gas to simulate the underground environment, so that gas transport experiments were carried out in the loose coal body under different temperature conditions (40-100 ℃), different injection pressures (0.3-0.5 MPa), and different permeability pressures (0.04-0.08 kPa). The mechanism of the influence of temperature change on the permeability of the loose coal body was investigated by mutual verification of the experimental and modeling results. The results show that: the permeability of loose coal body increases exponentially with the increase of gas pressure gradient; under the condition of the same pressure gradient, the permeability decreases gradually with the increase of temperature; the influence of the temperature on the permeability is small when it is from 40 ℃ to 60 ℃, and the change of the permeability is not obvious, and the permeability starts to decrease after 60 ℃, and the decrease of the permeability is more significant when it is from 90 ℃ to 100 ℃; under the influence of the slippage effect, the increase of the injection pressure inhibits the permeability of the coal body. Under different osmotic pressure conditions (0.04-0.08 kPa), the model values of the permeability of the loose coal body and the experimental values of the seepage flow are in high agreement. With the increase of temperature, adsorption deformation has an inhibitory effect on the permeability of the loose coal body, thermal cracking deformation and the slipping effect have a promotional effect on the permeability of the loose coal body, and the effect of the deformation of the thermal expansion on the permeability of the loose coal body is weak. Temperature affects the permeability of loose coal body through the combined effect of adsorption deformation, thermal cracking deformation and sliding effect.