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Kunlei Liu
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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 |
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Reynolds Frimpong
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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. |
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Chunli Han
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Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Research consists of process simulation using Aspen and ChemCad, experimental investigation on SO3 mitigation and CO2 capture from power plant. |
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Quanzhen Huang
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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. |
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Don Johnson
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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. |
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Xiansen Li
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Post Doctoral Scholar - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Research expertise includes membrane-based liquid/gas mixtures separations, catalytic/inert membrane reactors, CO2 solvent scrubbing and stripping, and membrane reactor design/membrane process design. |
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Zhe Lu |
Scientist II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Expertise includes CO2 capture using solvents and solid sorbents; synthesis and characterization of sorbent materials; adsorption technologies and adsorption process modeling; coal gasification; recovery and utilization of coal combustion by-products; development of high value material from coal fly ash. |
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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. |
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Jim Neathery
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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.
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B.K. Parekh |
Scientist IV/Engineer - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Proficiencies include: coal and mineral processing; crushing and grinding
studies; physical beneficiation of fine particles and related auxiliary operations, such
as dewatering, pelletization, drying, etc. Application of mineral processing technology to
non-minerals area, such as secondary recovery of value from industrial waste;
hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processing; water pollution related problems,
such as removal of metal ions and or fine particulates from discharge waters. Develops
novel techniques to solve industrial problems and teaches specialized topics related to
coal and mineral processing. |
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Dattatraya Patil |
Engineer Associate III - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Expertise is in dewatering and application of mineral processing techniques to
process industrial waste; application of enhanced gravity techniques in coal and mineral
processing; processing of fine particles; mathematical modeling of flocculation; plant
auditing and optimization; processing of industrial minerals. |
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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. |
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Joe Remias
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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). |
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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.
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Ye Sun
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Post Doctoral Scholar - 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. |
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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.
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Mark Warren
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Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Expertise includes project/process engineering; fossil fuel and pollutant control practices; carbon management in power plants; economic analysis of pollution control systems.
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Derek Yates
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Engineer Associate II - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Research interests include CO2 capture. |
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Jun S. Zhang
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Visiting Scientist - Power Generation and Utility Fuels
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. A visiting scientist from China's Southeast University. He teaches thermal engineering in the Department of Energy and Environment at his home university. He joins the Power Gen Research group from September 2008 to September 2009. |
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