CAER News Archive: February 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
CAER Engineer Program Manager, Shiela Medina, recently arranged a meeting, presentation, and tour of the lab for members of the Utilities' Information Exchange (UIE).
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Friday, February 15, 2008
Tristana Duvallet (left) and Cedric Morin came to the CAER in February as French materials engineering students from France's ESIREM program in Dijon, have done for the last nine years. Over the next several months they will perform research in the labs that will qualify for their senior year internship. We welcome them both.Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The CAER would like to welcome Xiansen Li, who is a Post Doctoral Scholar in the Power Generation and Utility Fuels group.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Monday, February 11, 2008
The 2008 first issue of the CAER's Energeia Newsletter has now been added to the CAER web site. Articles include:
-- Production of Coal-Based Fuels and Value-Added Products: Coal to Liquids Using Petroleum Refinery Streams by Caroline E. Burgess Clifford and Harold H. Schobert
-- Energy Fair to Students Commentary by Marybeth McAlister
-- The Kentucky Ash Education Site Announcement by Marybeth McAlisterThe UK CAER has now launched a new educational web site ... the KENTUCKY ASH EDUCATION SITE.
This web site was originally the product of a grant from the University of Kentucky President’s Office called a Commonwealth Collaborative. The interactive web site provides clear explanations of the issues surrounding coal combustion (by-) products, their potential for beneficial utilization, environmental cleanup, and what the University of Kentucky is doing to study them.
The story is told in non-technical terms and is organized and scripted with the help of professionals with relevant expertise in communicating with the public. The information will be useable at the high school level, but also to be useful to communicate with others, including legislators and non-specialists in the field of energy production.
The CAER Web Manager and Communications Manager worked closely with ash researchers and a graphic artist to create, refine, and synthesize relevant information and package it for public consumption. The site was completed at the end of January, 2008.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Center for Applied Energy Research has partnered with over sixteen different departments and centers at the University of Kentucky to collaborate in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. The US Department of Energy bi-annually conducts the US Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC (www.solardecathlon.org). This is a competition in which twenty college- and university-led teams from around the world work to design, finance, construct, and operate the most energy-efficient, solar-powered homes imaginable. The team-constructed 800 square foot house will be built on the UK campus and then transported and assembled on the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol where it will be judged in ten areas evaluating the next generation of energy efficient solar-powered homes.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Friday, February 1, 2008
On January 23rd, fourth and fifth grade students from Johnson, Linlee, Mary Todd and Russell Cave elementary schools came to the University of Kentucky for a day-long energy education fair, which featured displays by energy-related organizations from both inside and outside the university.
Before touring the exhibits, each class got to see a 20 minute stage performance on energy. After watching the demos, the students tour 16 different exhibits. Among the more popular events were: the E-ON U.S. mini-city and Touchstone Energy’s kinetic energy demonstration using live reptiles. Some of the other stations included: Bluegrass Community and Technical College, whose station featured tornado tubes and a magnet board. Exhibitors from UK’s College of Engineering explained greenhouse gases (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering) and snap circuitry (Department of Electrical Engineering), while CAER scientists showed the students how to make batteries.
We hope to have another energy fair next year.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
