21 November 2019

21 November 2019

The fifth Technical Meeting of 2019 of the Southern African Coal Processing Society  was held at the Colliery Training College (CTC) in Emalahleni on Thursday 21 November 2019 at 14h00.

The last meeting of every year is normally dedicated to presentations given by students that the society sponsors through the year.  We had five students who presented their findings on projects that they have been working on.
The presentations were as follows:

Sayuri Naidoo from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal who presented her project on the “Fluidization of ultra-fine particles”.

Mpho Ramudzwagi from the University of Johannesburg who presented his project on “Optimization and modeling the process of de-mineralizing coal using a hydrocyclone”.

Kgotlelelo Sekgobela from the University of Johannesburg who presented his project on “Assessing mineral matter content in South African coal and their effect on its strength properties”.

Nthabiseng Leokaoke from the University of North West who presented her project on “Green coal development for application in fixed-bed catalytic gasification”.

Lizah Setsepu from the University of the Witswatersrand who presented her project on “Development of a binder for use with discard coal fines”.

A lot of interest was seen from the audience who asked detailed questions to each of the presenters. Congratulations to all of the presenters on excellent presentations.
Picture: Students from L-R: Mpho Ramudzwagi, Kgotlelelo Sekgobela, Nthabiseng Leokaoke, Lizah Setsepu and Sayuri Naidoo

 

19 September 2019

The fourth Technical Meeting of 2019 of the Southern African Coal Processing Society  was held at the Colliery Training College (CTC) in Emalahleni on Thursday 19 September 2019 at 14h00.  The first presentation topic was entitled New” LARCODEMS – Since 1986 and was presented by Gavin McLaggan of Obsideo.  The second presentation topic entitled “A practical proven fines circuit” presented by Mark Craddock of MPTEQ.

25 July 2019

The third Technical Meeting of 2019 of the Southern African Coal Processing Society  was held at the Colliery Training College (CTC) in Emalahleni on Thursday 25 July 2019 at 14h00.  The first presentation topic was entitled Dewatering of fine-and ultra-fine coal ‘Fine coal centrifuges’and presented by Syd Parkhouse (Aury Africa).  The second presentation topic entitled ‘High pressure filtration technology in ultrafine coal processing plant’ was presented by Kwena Nong (Enprotec).

Snacks were sponsored by Enprotec.

24 January 2019

The first technical meeting of 2019 took place on 24 January with presentations being given by Sipho Sikhosana (Exxaro) etitled ‘Exxaro’s new Belfast plant’ and ‘Fine coal processing – RC or Spirals?’ presented by Johan de Korte.  If you are interested in receiving more information of these presentations please contact Johan de Korte on johan.korte@sacoalprep.co.za

14 March 2019

The second technical meeting of the year took place on 14 March 2019 and the presentation that was given was titled “The new 400 tph Canyon Coal – Khanye Colliery wash plant” and was presented by Lambert Taute (Obsideo Consulting) & Mark Berger (Isimilo).  If you are interested in receiving more information on the presentation, please contact Johan de Korte on johan.dekorte@sacoalprep.co.za