Longtime University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) investigator Jim Hower, Ph.D., has contributed a chapter to the recently published book, “Rare Earth Elements: Sustainable Recovery, Processing, and Purification.”

Hower, who also has an appointment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the world’s top coal petrographers and rare earth element researchers, contributing numerous publications and knowledge to the field for decades.

Rare earth elements are among the critical materials that are considered the building blocks for modern society. These elements are used in the development of all the products we use in our daily lives — from mobile devices and computers to our health care and military equipment.

The title of Hower’s contributed chapter is “Rare Earth Elements in Coal Combustion Fly Ash and Their Potential Recovery.” Allan Kolker from the U.S. Geological Survey, Heileen Hsu-Kim from Duke University and Desireé Plata from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology served as co-authors on this chapter.

The book was edited by Athanasios K. Karamalidis from Penn State University and Roderick Eggert from the Colorado School of Mines and was published by John Wiley & Sons as American Geophysical Union Special Publication 79.

You can find the book here: https://lnkd.in/e5GiqX9B.