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UK CAER Grant Seeks to Reduce Carbon Capture Costs

May 25, 2018, 9:04 AM

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.

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Federal Funding to Expand UK CAER Carbon Capture Research

May 1, 2018, 8:25 AM

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.

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Chad Risko Creates New Materials Using Computational Chemistry

Apr 11, 2018, 9:33 AM

UK computational chemist Chad Risko starts at the atomic level to design new materials for lithium ion batteries and electrical grid storage.

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UK CAER Outreach Nets Big Savings for Kentucky Communities

Apr 6, 2018, 9:31 AM

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.

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Risko Receives 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

Mar 7, 2018, 9:21 AM

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.

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UK CAER Receives DOE Grant to Modularize Gasification Technology, Create New Economic Opportunities

Jan 17, 2018, 9:44 AM

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.

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UK CAER, Hazard Partnership Seeks to Improve Rural Power Generation

Jan 2, 2018, 8:50 AM

The UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has received a $1.6 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to develop an innovative partnership in Hazard, Kentucky, that could serve as a model for future energy projects in rural Eastern Kentucky communities.

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UK CAER Receives International Grant for CO2 Capture Research

Sep 6, 2017, 8:41 AM

The UK Center for Applied Energy Research will use the $300,000 grant from the Shanxi Science and Technology Department to scale-up its hybrid technology for post-combustion CO2 capture in a coal-fired power plant.

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Discovery of Process to Harness Energy Could Affect Synthetic Biology, Fuel, Chemical Production

Aug 22, 2017, 8:33 AM

UK researchers participating in a DOE funded multi-institutional center (BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center) have discovered a groundbreaking process that allows them to harness energy from chemical reactions that previously dismissed as unusable.

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Power from a Partnership: UK & Weisenberger Mill

Jan 24, 2017, 3:59 PM

Weisenberger Mill, UK's CAER, and Shaker Landing Hydro Associates have teamed up to pilot test the first variable-speed generator in U.S. hydroelectric plant.

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