Bowling Green, Ky. - Student researchers at Western Kentucky University’s Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology (ICSET) have been recognized at three recent conferences.

The paper “Investigation of the Relationship between Particulate Bound Mercury and Properties of Fly Ash in A Full-Scale 100 MWe Pulverized Coal Combustion Boiler” was presented at the 23rd Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference and was awarded an honorable mention. Five of the 270 papers presented at the Sept. 25-28 conference were recognized at the awards luncheon. 

Dr. Chin-Min Cheng, who presented the paper at the conference, represented ICSET to receive the award. This paper is primarily based on the master’s thesis of Sen Li, a former WKU graduate student. The co-authors are Chin-Min Cheng, Yan Cao, Jacob Vervynckt, (Research Experience Undergraduate Program 2006), Amanda Adebambo (ACS-SEED Program 2006) and Wei-Ping Pan.   

Two ICSET student researchers, Jamison Mattingly and Yan Zhang, earned individual awards for best student poster presentation at the annual NATAS conference Aug. 6-9 in Bowling Green. Mattingly’s poster “Characterization of Fly Ash Deposits in the Downstream Duct of a Coal Fired Utility” was entered in the undergraduate poster category while Zhang’s “CO2 Capture Using Activated Carbon Made from Chicken Waste” was in the graduate poster category. At the conference, scientists and engineers shared the latest advancements in the field of thermal analysis.

Three papers written by researchers at ICSET were presented by team member Bianca Casenas at the American Chemical Society’s 232nd national meeting and exposition Sept. 10-14 in San Francisco. The presentations are the result of research studies conducted at the institute on topics that include improvement in sorbent technology, utilization of chicken waste as a source for activated carbon, and simultaneous CO2 capture and hydrogen production. The papers presented are: “Evaluation of mercury sorbents on a lab-scale multi-phase flow reactor and on a pilot-scale slipstream reactor”; “The characterization of CO2 activated carbon from chicken waste for mercury capture”; and “Thermodynamic establishment of simultaneous coal-derived H2 production and CO2 sequestration.” Casenas also received travel grant award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Fuel Chemistry.

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For information, contact Wei-Ping Pan at (270) 745-2220.

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