PowerGen Staff
- Kunlei Liu
Associate Director for Research of the Center for Applied Energy Research
Research Engineer
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include fossil fuel combustion and pollutant (SOx, NOx and PM) control; mercury transformation and control; carbon management in power plants; metal corrosion in utility environmental; gasification high temperature flue gas cleanup - Balraj Ambedkar
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise and Research Interests include CO2 Capture; Design of Absorber and Stripper for CO2 Capture and Stripping; Clean Coal Technology using Power Ultrasound; Coal to Liquid Fuels using Power Ultrasound; Erosion Modeling of Power Plant Boiler Accessories; CFD Modeling of Hydrocyclone for Fine Particle Separation; Ultrasound-Assisted Industrial Effluent and Municipal Waste-Water Treatment; Fabrication of Nano Particles and Nano-Coposites using Power Ultrasound; CFD Modeling of Spray Drier; Megasonic Cleaning. - Saloni Bhatnagar
Scientist I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise includes analytical chemistry, HPLC, -MS, GC-MS, ion chromatograph. Research interests include method development for analysis of samples of solvent degradation products of CO2 capture experiments by HPLC MS, GCMS, and Ion Chromatography. - Payal Chandan
Scientist II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include value added chemicals from renewable resources; Catalytic organic transformations; CO2 capture Technologies; Heterogeneous solid acid, base and redox catalyst synthesis, characterization, evaluation, and scale-up; Solvent degradation studies; Kinetic studies, mathematical modeling and mechanistic investigations. - Liangyong Chen
Visiting Scientist - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
A visiting scientist, has a Ph.D in Environmental Engineering and is from the Southeast University in China. He is working with the Power Generation Research Group (Jan 2012 - Jan 2013). - Reynolds Frimpong
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research consists of catalysts development; synthesis and characterization of catalysts for enhanced CO2 capture; process optimization for enhanced CO2 capture. - Xin Gao
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include electrochemical devices for energy storage and generation (e.g., batteries and fuel cells), characterizations of electrode and membrane materials (e.g., carbon and ion-exchange membranes), and modeling of electrochemical systems. Recent and current work is principally on characterizations of porous carbon electrodes for capacitive desalination (CDI) application. - Robert Hodgen
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- Brian Hogston
Engineer Tech Associate - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include Industrial scale CO2 capture from coal fired emissions; Qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis and energy storage solutions. - Quanzhen Huang
Scientist I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research is in the area of simulating CO2 capture (with ammonia) process and locating the optimum conditions; also studying catalysts which could be used in CO2 capture process. - Qiying Jiang
Engineer II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- James Landon
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research expertise includes a broad background in electrochemistry including electrocatalyst design and operation for fuel cells, hydrogen production, and gas separations; currently work includes designing porous carbons for various deionization activities. Research interests include alkaline fuel cells, waste water remediation, and energy conversion technology. - Cameron Lippert
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise in both inorganic and organic synthetic techniques, including characterization. - Kun Liu
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise includes thermodynamics and kinetics in gas separation; environmental separation; and mathematical modeling. - Naser Matin
Scientist II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
A visiting scientist, will be working with the Power Generation Group (June 2011 - June 2012). He has a a Ph.D in Chemistry from the Tehran University. - Darryl McClean
Engineer Tech Associate - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Provides technical assistance in laboratory experiments; prepares and preps materials; collects samples for research; hazardous waste containment and safe disposal of solid hazardous wastes; management of research equipment in Materials Prep Laboratory. - Jim Neathery
Engineer Associate - Program Manager - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research includes carbon management and CO2 absorption processes; biomass combustion/gasification; process simulation (Aspen/ChemCad); process development; physical and chemical separation technologies. - Heather Nikolic
Engineer Associate I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include CO2 Capture; Plasma Polymerization; Thin Films; Adhesion. - Roger Perrone
Scientist I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Collection and processing of ash samples in support of research activities. - Joe Remias
Scientist IV, Program Manager - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research focus is CO2 capture technologies; reaction modeling, kinetics and mechanistic evaluations; catalysis synthesis, evaluation and scale-up; oxidation chemistry (C-H activation, hydrogen peroxide, epoxidation). - Lisa Richburg
Scientist Assistant - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Assists the Power Generation research group and associate direction in creation of reports, computer training, work schedules, inter-group communication, tech transfer, data/information disseminiation within carbon management projects. Expertise includes science teaching certification. - Steve Summers
Engineer Tech Senior - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise is in welding, machining, and equipment fabrication. Steve has over 6 years experience in automotive technology and industrial maintenance. - Darrell Taulbee
Scientist III/Industrial Support Coordinator, Analytical Services - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Serves as initial contact person for external technical assistance requests. Research interests include: briquetting and agglomeration of waste materials; binder formulations for coal and biomass; structural chemistry of fossil fuels; utilization of coal-combustion byproducts; and reduction of toxic emissions during the production of metal castings. Expertise is in instrumental analyses - capillary gas chromatography (GC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy; thermogravimetric analysis (TGA); SEM; BET; separation by density gradient centrifugation and briquetting. - Jesse Thompson
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include Analytical method development for energy research involving GC/MS, LC/MS and IC; Environmental sampling and analysis; Developing novel surface and headspace sampling techniques using SDC, DESI and SPME; Biofuel feedstock characterization for sustainable energy production. - Yi Zhang
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include advanced combustion and gasification process development; material characterization; TG/DSC-MS, UV-vis, IR, diffraction particle sizing, ellipsometry, electrochemical analysis, AFM, SEM, TEM, 3D atom probe microscope. - Liangfu Zheng
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include nano-materials including nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes and metal based nano-composites; corrosion resistant coatings such as aluminizing coatings and electrodeposited Ni-Al/Cr nanocomposite coatings; thermal stability, electrochemical corrosion and high temperature oxidation. - Gwen Pasley
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