CAER News Archive: June 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The UK CAER Clean Fuels Research Group's work has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 most cited articles" as published in Elsevier's Catalysis journals 2003 - 2007.
Low temperature water-gas shift: In situ DRIFTS-reaction study of ceria surface area on the evolution of formates on Pt/CeO2 fuel processing catalysts for fuel cell applications - authored by G. Jacobs, L. Williams, U. Graham, G.A. Thomas, D.E. Sparks, B.H. Davis in Applied Catalysis A: General, Volume 252, Issue 1 (2003), Pages 107-118.
As congratulations to the authors on this accomplishment -- the "Top Cited Author/Articles 2003-2007" within ALL Elsevier Catalysis journals -- they will be honored during a reception being held at the 14th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 2008) in Seoul, Korea, (July 2008).
The Catalysis journals are widely accessible by institutes worldwide. Over 5250 institutes have access to the Catalysis journals via ScienceDirect, and over 4.2 million full-text articles were downloaded from the journals during the last 12 months.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Fischer-Tropsch expert, Burt Davis, shows Kentucky Energy Secretary Len Peters (middle) and Asst. Secretary Hank List (right) wax made from coal during a recent visit to the CAER.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
James Smith is a chemical engineering undergraduate from the University of Louisville and will be at the lab until the end of June. He is an E.ON co-op this semester and is working with several CAER research groups.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
On June 9th, a large group of Chinese visitors toured the CAER and listened to presentations. They represented a Chinese coal company and university.
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Friday, June 6, 2008
Dr. Steve Lipka is among the few scientists to receive an award from an international research competition conducted by utility giant E.ON. More than 50 international universities and institutes from 11 countries submitted ideas on energy-storage technologies. The University of Kentucky was the only U.S. university to receive one of these awards.
Steve's research will focus on carbon capacitors to store energy. Specifically, CAER will study how to store energy using asymmetric carbon-based electrochemical capacitors instead of battereis, as has been done previously.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Longtime CAER Petrologist, Jim Hower, has received the Society of Organic Petrology's highest honor based on his significant and lasting contributions to the field of coal geology in research, service to the community, educational outreach, and teaching. The group says his work in almost every aspect of coal geology, including organic and inorganic petrology, coal quality, coal utilization, combustion by-products, and environmental aspects of coal utilization is the benchmark in the coal research community.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
Monday, June 2, 2008
CAER Director, Rodney Andrews, made a presentation on the lab's current research relating to carbon capture at the 48th Annual Kentucky Geological Survey Seminar, May 23rd.
Posted by Marybeth McAlister [Link]
