LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 15, 2011) — The University of Kentucky Research Foundation has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive $14,502,144 to help develop ways to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of advanced carbon capture systems used at coal-fired power plants. The project, titled “Application of a Heat Integrated Post-Combustion CO2 Capture System with Hitachi Advanced Solvent into Existing Coal-Fired Power Plant,” will be headed by the Power Generation and Utility Fuels group at UK’s Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) and will take place at LG&E/KU’s Brown Power Plant.

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