Coal technology stalwarts Lionel Falcon and Rose-mary Falcon have been awarded the South African Coal Processing Society’s (SACPS’s) Coal Person of the Year award, in recognition of their lifelong contritracked mining equipmentbution to the industry.
Rosemary Falcon, who chairs the South African National Energy Research Institute’s (Saneri’s) Clean Coal Techfrance jaw crusher capacitiesnology Group, has been involved in coal and carbon research for more than 35 years and has made a significant contribution to the induscrawler mobile crusher for saletry through initiatives such as a coal research faculty at the University of the Witwatersrand.
She also founded the Falcon Research Laboratory, where she carried out research on power generation, petrochemicals con- version, small-scale gasification, and heat production for the agriculture and the metallurgical industries.
Falcon is also the director of the Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa, acted as president of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies and has published over 80 papers.
Lionel Falcon is a senior member of the Saneri Clean Coal Technology Group, which is an integral part of the Coal and Carbon Research Group in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand and has had 44 years’ experience in the mining industry in four different countries.
He served as president of the SACPS in 1993 and 1994, and founded the Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa.
The SACPS awards also recog- nised Thomas Masha as Student of the Year for his efforts to obtain a certificate in advanced lump ore beneficiation.
He achieved 79% for the course, which he self-financed and studied through the University of Limpopo.