Mr. Butcher joined Battelle in October of 1991 as a technician for the Bioprocessing Group.  Now as a Science and Engineering Associate he provides technical support to several projects.  This support includes test equipment design, setup, and operation as well as data acquisition and analysis using gas and ion chromatography, photospectrometry, protein assay and bacterial enumeration.  Mr. Butcher also assists in mentoring new lab personnel, writing safety procedures and promoting lab safety.

Capability Summary / Project Experience

• Co-invented multiple-electrode corona discharge reactors for the treatment of aqueous wastes.
• Conducted numerous soil column studies that were used to develop applications in transport modeling and simulations for an in situ bioremediation demonstration for carbon tetrachloride and nitrate in the groundwater aquifer at the U.S. DOE Hanford site, Washington State.  Also provided technical and analytical support for this two year project.
• Provided analytical and technical support for numerous projects including heavy metals bioremediation, biodenitrification of groundwater, biogenic sulfide precipitation, bio-sensor, micro-cell technology, British Petroleum Treatability, and the Science & Technology For Environmental Processing Lab Iniative (STEP) studies.  Analyses included gas and ion chromatography, bacterial enumeration, and colormetric methods.
• Conducted several bench-scale bioremediation technology studies for the Department of Defense for remediation of JP-4 fuel soil contamination at the Tinker Air Force Base Purge Area groundwater aquifer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Co-designed and operated micro-cell systems for testing liquid/liquid and gas/liquid separation technologies.
• Designed and operated two bench-scale wastewater treatment reactors.

• B.A. Physical Geography, Eastern Washington University (Cheney, Washington), 1974