The SARChI coal research portfolio addresses value addition across the entire coal value chain. It provides a focus on (1) fine coal processing (drying fundamentals, stockpile drainage, dry coal beneficiation), (2) coal utilisation optimisation (coal breakage, briquetting, smokeless fuels, reactivity and kinetics, mineral transformational behaviour, tar, catalytic gasification), and (3) waste utilisation (CO2 utilisation, ash utilisation, acid mine drainage eradication).