SACAA Ash Conference 2018:
Ash Utilisation: South African Untapped Resource Potential
Dates: 22 & 23 February 2018
Venue: Franklin Auditorium Eskom Megawatt Park, Johannesburg
Venue: Franklin Auditorium Eskom Megawatt Park, Johannesburg
REPORT BACK
SACAA in association with Eskom hosted the prestige Ash Conference on 22 February 2018 at the Eskom Megawatt Park Auditorium. 10 papers were presented as well as 5 Exhibition stands with over 100 delegates attended. SACAA had the privilege of having the Vice President Ash and Water from Sasol Secunda, Ronel Kotze giving an inspiring opening address to kick start the conference. This was followed by some excellent ash related papers and the day was ended by the General Manager Kendal Power Station, Christopher Nani doing the conference wrap up and closing address, where he indicated that Ash could be the “New Gold” in terms of creating jobs.
The presentations were of a high standard and the topics addressed many topics made for an interesting and informative conference. It must be highlighted by Mishelle Govender from the DEA stressing that ash utilisation has demonstrated that it is a resource, notwithstanding that it is a waste.
Topics & Speakers
1. Keynote Address
Ronel Kotze
Vice President for Water and Ash at Sasol Secunda Synfuels Operations
2. The coal ash strategy andimplementation process for Eskom
Kelley Reynolds-Clausen
Eskom Holdings SOC – R T and D
3. Maputo Bridge and Link Roads Project using fly ash
Lawrence Greene
GAUFF GmbH & Co. Engineering KG
4. Fly ash as filler of rubber products and as an alumina resource
Liezel van der Merwe
Pretoria University
5. Developments, legislative and otherwise to encourage the secondary waste economy with ash as the focus
Mishelle Govender
Chief Director: Hazardous Waste Management & Licensing Department of Environmental Affairs
6. Class F Fly Ash application in pavement structure
Mohamed Mostafa
Professor Central University of Technology, Free State South Africa
7. Bottom Boiler Ash and brick making, the missed opportunity
Sipho Magagula
Grandicon Pty Ltd
8. Synthesis of silica nanoparticles from coal fly ash derived sodium silicate
Mathibela E. Aphane
University of South Africa
9. Ash Classification
Maite Ruth Terblanche
Sasol Coal
10. “Ash” the way it was, the way it is, the way to be
Mark Hovy
SACAA President
11. Closing Address
Christopher Nani
General Manager, Kendal PS
Download - Speakers Presentations
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Site Visit
On Friday 23 February, some 33 delegates attended the site visit to Lethabo Power Station, where the General Manager of Lethabo Mr Thomas Conradie, took his time to explain the working of a power station, followed by a guided tour onto the ash dump. What an experience to see the volume of ash that is generated per day. The tour then visited the Ash Resources site next to Lethabo, where Jakes Rosslee and Dirk Odendaal explained the ash processes once the ash is sent from Lethabo.
Delegates Feedback
The comments received was that this was very interesting and the awareness of ash utilisation and the importance of having ash infrastructure in place to handle the ash going forward.
Many the delegates were from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) who indicated that they now have a better understanding when new development for capital infrastructure projects are presented to them for funding.
Exhibitors
Birkenmayer Eirich Group
CSIR – National Cleaner Production Centre
Eskom Rotek Industries (ERI)
PMSA - Pan Mixers South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Photo Gallery
SACAA would like to thank all the delegates, speakers, sponsors and organisers for a successful event.