Elizabeth Butler

Email: ecbutler@ou.edu
Office: Carson Engineering Center, Room 334
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Education

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering 
University of Michigan

M.S., Civil Engineering 
University of Maryland

B.S., Chemistry 
University of Maryland

• Sustainable water and wastewater treatment
• Contaminant fate in the environment
• Nutrient recovery and recycling
• Development of low-cost water treatment materials
• Valorization of waste materials for water treatment
• Life cycle assessment

• Recycling and recovery of phosphorus from wastewater
• Preparation of anion exchange polymers from agricultural wastes

Undergraduate Courses 

• CEES 2313--Water Quality Fundamentals
• CEES 4943--Air Quality Management

Graduate Courses

• CEES 5243--Physical-Chemical Water Treatment

• Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

• Ding, Y., Sabatini, D. A., Butler, E. C. (2023), Sorbents for phosphorus recovery and reuse prepared from corn cob char and rice husk ash: A life cycle and cost assessment, Resources, Conservation & Recycling 198, 107127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107127
• Ding, Y., Sabatini, D. A., Butler, E. C. (2023), Effects of pH and Soil Minerals on Phosphorus Release from Agricultural Waste-Based Sorbents: A Continuous-Flow Column Study, Journal of Environmental Engineering 149(4), 04023010. https://doi.org/10.1061/JOEEDU.EEENG-7102.
• Butler, E. C., Ding, Y., Sabatini, D. A. (2022), Phosphate uptake by precipitation in model animal wastewaters: Adjusting ionic strength and ionic composition to maximize phosphorus removal, Water 14, 2229. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14142229.
• Sharmin, N., Sabatini, D. A., Butler, E. C. (2021), Phosphorus recovery and reuse using calcium-silicate hydrate made from rice husk, Journal of Environmental Engineering 147(6), 04021015, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001877.
• Ding, Y., Sabatini, D. A., Butler, E. C. (2021), Phosphorus recovery and recycling from model animal wastewaters using materials prepared from rice straw and corn cobs, Water Science and Technology 83 (8), 1893-1906, DOI: 10.2166/wst.2021.094.
• Nijhawan, A., Butler, E. C., Sabatini, D. A. (2020).  Fluoride Adsorption on Porous Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Filters: A Study of Kinetics, Environmental Engineering Science 37(6), 409-416.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2019.0392.
• Nijhawan, A., Butler, E. C., Sabatini, D. A. (2018), Hydroxyapatite ceramic adsorbents: effect of pore size, regeneration, and selectivity for fluoride, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 144(11): 04018117. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001464.
• Yami, T. L., Butler, E. C., Sabatini, D. A. (2018), Preparation and evaluation of monetite as a high-capacity adsorbent for fluoride removal from drinking water, Journal of Environmental Engineering 144 (1), 04017081.
• Nijhawan, A., Butler, E. C., Sabatini, D. A. (2017) Macroporous hydroxyapatite ceramic beads for fluoride removal from drinking water.  J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 92, 1868‚Äì1875. DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5167.
• Du, J., Sabatini, D. A., Butler, E. C. (2017), Evaluation of Aluminum Hydroxide-Amended Zeolites in Fluoride Removal: Column Filtration and Regeneration, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 143(4), 04016092.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001182.