Contact: Burt Davis, Associate Research Director
Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), UK
2540 Research Park Drive
Lexington, KY 40511
Phone: 859-257-0251
Email: davis@caer.uky.edu
To conduct a program that interfaces the aspects of academic and industrial research that relates catalyst composition and operating parameters to catalyst productivity and selectivity.
The CAER Fischer-Tropsch funding for 1999 was obtained from U.S. DOE, industry and Kentucky. The amount in, rounded numbers, is divided as follows:
| U.S. DOE | $1,500,000 |
| To CAER | $1,000,000 |
| To U. California, Berkeley | $300,000 |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky | $500,000 |
| Industry | $600,000 |
Within the CAER laboratory the funding for 1999 is (the number in parenthesis is a percentage):
| U.S. DOE | $1,000,000 (48%) |
| Kentucky | $500,000 (24%) |
| Industry | $600,000 (28%) |
Thus, the U.S. DOE funding is equally matched by the Kentucky and industrial fuding for proprietary work.
The industrial funding is distributed as shown below:
| Company A | $100,000 |
| Company B | $70,000 |
| Company C | $105,000 |
| Company D | $25,000 |
| Company E | $70,000 |
| Company F | $75,000 |
| United Catalyst Inc. | $50,000 |
| TOTAL | $495,000 |
The proprietary work that is conducted for industry is specific to a particular application that falls within the range of process conditions of interest to the company. Much of the industrial work falls within the DOE/Kentucky funded portion of the CAER Fischer-Tropsch program.
In summary, the industrial participation in the CAER Fischer-Tropsch program demonstrates the need for the public portion of the research and the validity of the current research work plan.
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