University of Kentucky Research Foundation

Heather Nikolic

Kunlei Liu

Mark Crocker

A carbon dioxide (CO) capture and utilization system captures COfrom flue gas and utilizes the same to enhance algae or cyanobacteria growth. The system generally comprises a COcapture unit and a utilization unit that is in fluid communication with the COcapture unit. The COcapture unit includes a membrane COabsorber that captures COfrom incoming flue gas to produce a CO-rich solvent. The utilization unit processes the CO-rich solvent to produce a product stream that includes COand NHin a predetermined CO:NHratio. The product stream is delivered to a cultivation subsystem of the utilization of the unit including one or more species of algae or cyanobacteria. A method for capturing and utilizing COis also provided herein.

COcapture and utilization system and method

A biomass fuel slurry includes a mixture of a biomass material and a plastic material suspended in water. In other embodiments, the biomass fuel slurry also includes coal. A method of making a biomass fuel slurry includes the steps of encapsulating a biomass material with a plastic material to produce a plastic encapsulated biomass material and suspending the plastic encapsulated biomass material in water.

Biomass fuel slurry and method of making the same

An acid gas absorber includes a co-current flue gas-lean solution section and a packed counter-current flue gas-liquid phase section useful in a method of capturing an acid gas from flue gas in a more efficient and cost effective manner.

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Heather Nikolic