Claire Butler

Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University

B.S. Environmental Engineering, Minor in Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (2021)

M.S. and M.Phil. Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University (2023, 2024)

Email: claire.butler@yale.edu

Transition metal oxynitride catalysts for nitrate reduction and non-thermal plasma activation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
 

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Claire is a 4th year PhD student focusing on electrified membranes for nitrate reduction an ammonia recovery. She joined the Winter lab in July 2022. Claire has a B.S. in environmental engineering and a minor in energy engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and experience working in the drinking water industry. She became interested in resource recovery technologies during her undergraduate research and capstone project where she developed life cycle assessment and life cycle costing models of pyrolysis for municipal solid waste disposal and PFAS destruction. At Yale, Claire continues to integrate sustainability principles and resource recovery in her research on electrified membranes and PFAS destruction. She is actively involved in the Yale graduate community as part of the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center, the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, and the Graduate Engineering Community Organization. When not in the lab, Claire enjoys running half marathons, rock climbing, trying out new recipes, and exploring the coffee scene in New Haven.

Publications

  • Fan, Y., Wang, X., Butler, C. E., et al. (2024). “Highly Efficient Metal-free Nitrate Reduction Enabled by Electrified Membrane Filtration”, Nature Water, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00278-7
  • Butler, C. E., Fan, Y., Grewal, S., Winter, L. (2023). “At-Field Fertilizer Synthesis Using Sensor-Controlled Plasma Processes”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11 (15), 5803-5818, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06551.
  • Brucker, C., Livneh, B., Butler, C. E., Minear, T., Rosario-Ortiz, F. L. (2024). “An Analysis of Wildfire Effects on Water Quality and Hydrology through Laboratory Simulation Experiments”, In Revision.
  • Gorman, C., Gregory, B., Kennedy, A., Butler, C. E., et al. (2023) “Water Research Foundation Project #5046- Identifying Causes and Controls for Intermittent Nitrate Release from Granular Activated Carbon”, Water Research Foundation, https://waterrf.co/3T1Jphj.
  • Arnold, W., Gewirtzman, J., Raymond, P., Bradford, M., Butler, C. E., Peccia, J. (2023). “A Method for Sampling the Living Wood Microbiome”, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14311.
  • Johnson, W., Reeves, K., Liebig, J., Feula, A., Butler, C. E., et al. (2022). “Effectiveness of building-level sewage surveillance during both community-spread and sporadic-infection phases of SARS-CoV-2 in a university campus population”, FEMS Microbes, 3, 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtac024.
  • Reeves, K., … Butler, C. E., et al. (20th of 40 authors), (2021). “High-resolution within-sewer SARS-CoV-2 surveillance facilitates informed intervention”, Water Research, 204: 117613, ISSN 0043-1354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117613.