Center for Applied Energy Research

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.

UK CAER Grant Seeks to Improve Industrial Water Treatment Technology

Feb 19, 2018, 8:31 AM

The $740,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory will help advance the UK Center for Applied Energy Research's impressive portfolio of water treatment research.

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.

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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How is UK Moving Up Nationally in Research?

Dec 20, 2017, 8:57 AM

Federal research funding has been flat nationally, but you wouldn't know it by UK's funding numbers, which show three consecutive years of growth.

UK CAER to Take Part in Gobble Grease Toss 2017

Nov 22, 2017, 8:26 AM

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) and other community partners will once again be taking a Thanksgiving leftover and giving it new life as a renewable fuel.

Eastern Unconventional Oil & Gas Symposium - Abstracts

Call for Applications for the 2018 Eastern Unconventional Oil & Gas Symposium - Due January 26, 2018

New UK CAER Undergraduate Research Award Named for Lee Todd, Will Train Energy Entrepreneurs

Nov 9, 2017, 8:56 AM

The Lee T. Todd Jr. Student Innovation Award will provide undergraduate student entrepreneurs with an opportunity to develop their ideas alongside UK Center for Applied Energy Research scientists and engineers in a collaborative environment.

UK CAER Receives More Rare Earth Element Research Funding

Oct 2, 2017, 8:54 AM

The $1.5 million Department of Energy grant will fund the Center for Applied Energy Research's project to collect samples from four regions across Appalachia to determine the concentration of rare earth elements in those coalfields.

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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