CAER News Archive: June 2003
Thursday, June 5, 2003
The first year of an outreach program with a local elementary school culminated with the 4th grade students from Russell Cave Elementary touring the CAER on May 28th. This gave the students, who had witnessed demonstrations by scientists in the classroom throughout the year, an opportunity to see the same scientists in their work environment. This was followed by a picnic for students, teachers, and scientists. UKTV broadcast a feature story on this program on Thursday, June 5th.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
CAER was selected for a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project entitled "Advanced Gasification By-Product Utilization" and funded under the University Coal Research Program. This will be a collaborative project with The Pennsylvania State University and several industries to evaluate aspects of upgrading and marketing chars from modern gasification facilities. The total project value will be about $500,000 over three years.
The CAER (BK Parekh, PI) also received funding by two agencies (The Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation and the Consortium for Advanced Separation Technologies) to support two projects on different aspects of thickening coal slurry ponds. The KSEF project (total value $238,100) will evaluate the applicability of a novel paste thickening technology at a coal preparation plant in Kentucky which practices conventional ponding of the slurries. The CAST-funded work (total value $252,100) will evaluate the applicability of the paste thickening technology to the slurry cell disposal technique, which is currently being used in the state of West Virginia.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
