Research News

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.

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.

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.