Chemist Susan Odom leads UK's project as a partner in the $120 million Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a U.S. DOE Innovation Hub focused on advancing battery science.
The project is part of DOE’s Carbon Capture Program, which is developing transformational, step-change, low-cost capture processes and enabling technologies that will maximize the efficiency of our nation's fossil-based power generation infrastructure.
Utilizing a gold-based catalytic system developed in the UK CAER Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis Laboratory, researchers have discovered a method to turn lignin into valuable aromatic compounds.
Researchers in UK's Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) have received a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to develop an intensified process to significantly reduce the capital and operational costs associated with CO2 capture.
UK will receive over $940,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory to advance its world-renowned carbon dioxide capture research and development.
Greg Copley, UK CAER, serves as an outreach and technical coordinator for the Local Government Energy Retrofit Program, working with local and county government officials to implement performance savings conservation measures at public facilities across the Commonwealth.
Chad Risko, an assistant professor of chemistry in the UK College of Arts and Sciences and researcher at the Center for Applied Energy Research, is one of 31 academic scientists at 22 institutions to receive the honor this year.
The project, funded by NETL, will develop and test a scaled-down version of an opposed, multi-burner (OMB) gasifier to standardize the gasification process in a manner that could significantly reduce the cost of the technology.
