PowerGen Staff
- Kunlei Liu
Associate Director - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
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 - Payal Chandan
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- 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
Post Doctoral Scholar - 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. - Rolando E. Gonzalez
Engineer Associate I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Chemical and Physical Activation of Carbon-based materials followed by characterization/measurements of absorptive properties as we attempt to tailor the internal structure of novel materials for specific uses/needs. - Chunli Han
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include computation using quantum chemistry and reaction kinetics; air pollution control; and process simulation using Aspen and ChemCad. Expertise in process simulation; experimental investigation on SO3 mitigation and CO2 capture from power plant; trace metal characterization during coal combustion; mechanism analysis for reaction/catalysis system. - 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
- Krishna Jinka
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- Don Johnson
Engineer Associate I - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Research interests include CO2 capture along with the study of properties and applications of carbon nanotubes, drug delivery, temperature and pH responsive polymers. - James Landon
Post Doctoral Scholar - 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
- Naser Matin
Visiting Scientist - 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
Temporary Chemical Engineer - 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 III - 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. - Govind Sethia
Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- 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. - Ye Sun
Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Expertise includes Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) using various oxygen carriers; corrosion of combustion systems and protection; thin film technology and solar cells; coating/thin film fabrication; materials characterization and analysis in XRD/TEM/SEM/EDS/XPS. - 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. - Gang Yu
Visiting Scientist - 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 Thermal Energy Engineering from Southeast University in China. - Yi Zhang
Post Doctoral Scholar - 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. - Ye Zhou
Visiting Scientist - 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 (March 2011 - February 2012). He has a Masters degree in Envirnoment Engineering from the Wulton University in China and is working at the China Datong Cooperation. - Gwen Pasley
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