Kunlei Liu

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Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement

Appointments

2023 - present: Director, Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky

2016 - 2023: Associate Director for Research, Center for Applied Energy Research; Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky

2014 - 2016: Associate Director for Research, Center for Applied Energy Research; Associate Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky

2005 - 2014: Program Manager, Associate Director, Associate Director for Research, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky

2004 - 2005: Advisory Engineer, Research Center, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, OH

2002 - 2004: Associate Professor, tenure-track, Department of Architecture and Manufacturing Science; Manager of Combustion Laboratory, Western Kentucky University

2001 - 2002: Senior Engineer I, Fossil Program, Power Generation Technologies

1997 - 2001: Research Associate (visiting scholar), Combustion Laboratory Manager, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University

1993 - 1997: Research Engineer, Associate Professor (tenure-track), Thermoenergy Engineering Research Institute, Southeast University

Education

Ph.D. Thermoenergy Engineering, Thermoenergy Engineering Research Institute, Southeast University, Nanjing, PRC, 1993

M.S. Thermoenergy Engineering, Thermoenergy Engineering Research Institute, Southeast University, 1991

B.S. Power Engineering, Department of Power Engineering, Southeast University, 1988

Research Interests:

• Advanced Combustion and Gasification
• Carbon Removal from Point Sources and Air
• Hydrogen Production
• Efficiency Monitoring, Analysis and Improvement
• Material Recovery from Spent Battery and Solar Panel