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Director: Dr. Donald Colliver
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Grant Funding Opportunity NOW OPEN
Up to $300k at 50% cost share for qualifying* projects.
Grant Funding Opportunity Open
Qualifying* small and medium-sized US manufacturers, that received an ITAC, Onsite Energy/CHP TAP, or qualified equivalent assessment since 2018 can now apply for grants for implementation of assessment recommendations at up to 50% of qualifying* project costs with a maximum of $300,000 per grant.
IMPORTANT: The grant program now operates on a rolling basis and applications may be submitted at any time through the year, with quarterly reviews.
*See Full Grant Solicitation for full qualification and selection details.
ITAC Center of the Year: 2016

The University of Kentucky Industrial Assessment Center (UK-ITAC) provides free energy, productivity, and waste assessments to small and medium-sized industrial facilities through funding provided by the US Department of Energy.

UK-ITAC Activity Map
106 Assessments
1,130 Recommendations
1.46 Tbtu Energy Saving*
$20.32 million Cost Savings*
46 Students Trained
*Recommended Savings
Energy Engineering related programs, degrees, etc:
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Related Papers & Publications
Sekulic, D.P., Nehete, R., Yu, C-N., Fu, H., An energy sustainability metric, Energy, Vol. 74, 2014, pp. 37-44, 2014
R. Nehete, C.-N. Yu and D. P. Sekulic, Limits of energy resources use in traditional technological processes: A general approach and a metal bonding case study, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems & Technologies ISSST2013, May 15-17 2013, Cincinnati, OH, 2013
R. Nehete, C.-N.Yu, H. Fu, and D. P. Sekulic, Energy Resource Use: Sustainability Metric of a Manufacturing Process, Proceedings of ECOS 2013 - The 26th International Conference of efficiency, cost, optimization, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems, July 16-19, 2013, Guilin, China, 2013


Papers & Publications

2014

1 Papers / Publications

Sekulic, D.P., Nehete, R., Yu, C-N., Fu, H., An energy sustainability metric, Energy, Vol. 74, 2014, pp. 37-44 | University of Kentucky ITAC

2013

3 Papers / Publications

R. Nehete, C.-N. Yu and D. P. Sekulic, Limits of energy resources use in traditional technological processes: A general approach and a metal bonding case study, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems & Technologies ISSST2013, May 15-17 2013, Cincinnati, OH | University of Kentucky ITAC
R. Nehete, C.-N.Yu, H. Fu, and D. P. Sekulic, Energy Resource Use: Sustainability Metric of a Manufacturing Process, Proceedings of ECOS 2013 - The 26th International Conference of efficiency, cost, optimization, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems, July 16-19, 2013, Guilin, China | University of Kentucky ITAC
H. Fu, F. Dong, D.P. Sekulic, S.Dj. Mesarovic, M. Krivilyov, Surface Tension Driven Kinetics of the Triple Line of a Liquid Metal Free Surface, Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2013, November 13-21, 2013, San Diego, California | University of Kentucky ITAC

Last Available Contact Information

Center Director Dr. Donald Colliver
Email dcolliver@uky.edu
Phone # 1 (859) 218-4348
Fax # 1 (859) 257-3092
Mailing Address 453 FPAT
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
Assistant Director Dr. Lawrence E. Holloway
Assistant Director Dusan Sekulic
Assistant Director Tom Henninger

University of Kentucky has trained 46 students

The following students participated in ITAC assessments with University of Kentucky since 2012.
The 25 students (in BOLD) have also been awarded ITAC student certificates for exceptional participation.
Adam Plumley
Andrew Roach
Andy Shaefer
Bill Williams
Binit Singh
Brad Nation
Braydi Mcpherson
Connor Johnson
Dean Adams
Eric Nguyen
Evan Schroader
Fangxiao Dong
Gabby Frohlich
Gabriel Smith
Grant Boggess
Grayson Woods
Hollie Staskal
Jake Trimpe
Jeff Marshall
Jonathan Boustani
Jonathan Gasser
Junhao Yan
Katharine Estep
Kelsey Greenwell
Kumar Rishikish
Lucas Schaftlein
Luke Blakely
Martin Prichard
Masoud Arabghestani
Matt Smither
Melissa Anders
Michael Henry
Preston French
Rachel Norton
Rahul Nehete
Ryan Edwards
Salvador Loc
Scott Kelly
Shehan Gunawardena
Shelby Detring
Shravan Govindaraj
Stephen Hardy
Trevor Combs
Will Brennan
Zachary Tyler
Zack Lippay