CAER Collaborators and Community Outreach

Unlike a strictly academic program, as a research unit of the University of Kentucky, CAER's role is to act as a conduit of ideas to industry. As such, we have many industrial, governmental, and association collaborators around the world. Below are but a few of those entities we are proud to claim a relationship with:

Industrial

Biofuels & Environmental Catalysis

• Algae Venture Systems
• East Kentucky Power Cooperative
• Ford Motor Company
• Sapphire Energy

Carbon Materials

• Materials Sciences Corporation

Clean Fuels & Chemicals

• Chart
• Chevron
• EnviRes
• Honda Research Inc.
• Pall
• Rentech
• Sasol
• Sud-Chemie, Inc
• Toyota
• The Valvoline Company

Electrochemical Power Resources

• Contour Energy Systems
• Crown Battery
• JME, Inc.
• LKE (LG&E/KU)

Engineered Fuels

• Alden Resources (Williamsburg KY)
• Alpha Natural Resources
• Applied Chemical Technology, Inc.
• Coaltek, Inc (Tucker, GA)
• EKPC
• H&S Lumber (Clay City)
• International Paper (Henderson)
• Kela Energy (Orlando)
• KR Komarek (Elk Grove IL)
• LSB Industries (Oklahoma City)
• Mars Mineral (Mars PS)
• Mepco, Inc. (Morgantown)
• New Mexico Tech.
• Ray White Lumber (Morehead KY)
• Synmat (worked with both Ghent operations on pelletization and provided a number of analytical services to Owensboro office)
• TECO Coal
• Terra Industries, Inc.

Environmental & Coal Technologies

• A.K. Steel, Inc.
• Boral Material Technologies
• Charah
• ECOCEM, Ltd.
• ISG Resources
• Kentucky Utilities/LG & E
• Longjing Environmental Coal Technology
• Minova USA Inc.
• North American Iron Products, LLC
• Southern Company
• Western Kentucky Energy

Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and the Environment

• Miller Drilling
• Tricord, Inc.
• William Lettis and Associates
• M. Tuttle and Associates, Georgetown ME
• Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) - Columbus OH
• Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) - Cleveland OH
• Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) - Arlington VA
• Eberline Services, Hanford WA
• CDM, Inc., State College PA
• StrataG, Inc., Oak Ridge TN

Power Generation & Utility Fuels

• Beard Technologies
• Bratney Company
• Cimbra
• Duke Energy
• East Kentucky Power Coop
• HPSA (Hitachi Process Systems of America)
• Kentucky Power (AEP)
• KPMS (Koch Process Modular Systems)
• LKE (LG&E/KU)
• SMG (Smith Management Group)

General CAER Longterm Industrial Services

• Alcan International
• Allison Abrasives
• Ameresco
• Chryso Inc
• Easy Gardener Products
• Pegasus Technical Services
• S&B Minerals
• Sundrop Fuels

 

Governmental

Biofuels & Environmental Catalysis

• Arizona Public Service
• Kentucky State Energy Cabinet
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• U.S. Department of Energy

Carbon Materials

• Department of Defense: Army, Air Force, DARPA
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Kentucky State Energy Cabinet
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Clean Fuels & Chemicals

• Argonne National Lab
• Brookhaven National Lab
• NASA
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• U.S. Department of Energy

Electrochemical Power Resources

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research & Development Center
• Office of Naval Research

Engineered Fuels

• Department of Defense
• Department of Homeland Security
• East Kentucky Correctional Complex (West Liberty)
• Kentucky Cabinet of Energy and the Environment (DEDI)
• National Institute of Hometown Security

Environmental & Coal Technologies

• DEDI
• Department of Defense
• Department of Energy
• Department of Homeland Security
• East Kentucky Correctional Complex (West Liberty)
• National Institute for Homeland Security

Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and the Environment

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Radiation and Environmental Monitoring Laboratory
• Commonwealth of Kentucky
• Idaho National Laboratory
• Illinois Geological Survey
• Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet
• Kentucky Geological Survey
• National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Office of Environmental Management
• Savannah River National Laboratory
• United States Department of Fish and Wildlife
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management
• U.S. Department of Energy Portsmouth Paducah Project Office
• U.S. EPA
• U.S. EPA Region IV
• U.S. EPA Ada Environmental Research Laboratory

Power Generation & Utility Fuels

• Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (U.S. Department of Energy)
• Kentucky Dept. of Energy Development & Independence
• U.S. Department of Energy

 

Universities/Associations

Biofuels & Environmental Catalysis

• Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium (KREC)
• Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF)
• Kentucky State University
• National Algae Association
• University of Houston

Carbon Materials

• American Carbon Society
• Consortium for Premium Carbon Products from Coal
• Deakin University, Australia
• Homeland Security
• Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Materials Science and Engineering Department
• University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• University of Oxford, Department of Materials
• University of Southern Mississippi
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
• West Virginia University, Carbon Products Group

Clean Fuels & Chemicals

• University of California at Riverside
• University of Louisville
• University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg

Electrochemical Power Resources

• PEIK (Power Energy Institute of Kentucky)
• Transylvania University

Engineered Fuels

• CAST
• Duke University
• Eastern KY University
• Intl. Ctr. for Soil Fertility and Agric. Development
• New Mexico Tech.'s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC)
• University of North Dakota-EERC
• Virginia Technical Institute

Environmental & Coal Technologies

• American Coal Ash Association
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee

Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and the Environment

• Murray State University
• Southern Illinois University
• University of Arizona
• University of Chicago
• University of Louisville
• University of Memphis
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Tennessee
• Western Kentucky Community and Technical College
• Ohio University

Power Generation & Utility Fuels

• EPRI - Electric Power Research Institute