Kerri Hickenbottom
Civil Engineering 306E
Kerri Hickenbottom is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona. She completed her BS degree in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, and her MS and PhD degrees in environmental science and engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research is centered on the development of novel engineered systems for resource recovery and reclamation of concentrate streams. She has investigated the technical, economic and environmental life cycle impacts of a hybrid, membrane-based process (pressure retarded osmosis-membrane distillation) for energy generation from low-grade heat, forward osmosis for advanced treatment and recovery of drilling wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, and membrane distillation for management of concentrate streams. She looks forward to continuing her research and taking an interdisciplinary to solving our grand environmental challenges by collaborating with other researchers across campus.
Interests
Teaching
• CHEE 370: Environmental Water Engineering • CHEE 400: Water Chemistry for Engineers • CHEE 474/574: Fate and Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering • CHEE 476A/576A: Water Treatment System Design • CHEE 476B/576B: Wastewater Treatment Design System • CHEE 676: Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
Research
• Novel engineered systems for resource recovery and reclamation of concentrate streams • Technical, economic and environmental life cycle impacts of a hybrid, membrane-based process (pressure retarded osmosis-membrane distillation) for energy generation from low-grade heat • Forward osmosis for advanced treatment and recovery of drilling wastewater from hydraulic fracturing• Membrane distillation for management of concentrate streams • Concentrate management • Novel membrane processes for advanced resource recovery from waste streams • Environmental life-cycle assessment
Courses
View the full course list in UA Profiles.
Selected Publications
Chapters
- Hickenbottom, K. (2016). Pressure retarded osmosis: applications. In Sustainable Energy from Salinity Gradients. Woodhead Publishing – Elsevier.
Journals/Publications
- Achilli, A., Hickenbottom, K. L., Hardikar, M., Felix, V., & Presson, L. (2022). Fouling Characterization and Treatment of Water Reuse Concentrate with Membrane Distillation: Do Organics Really Matter. Desalination. doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.116443
- Farrell, J., Hickenbottom, K., Achilli, A., Phakdon, T., & Xu, J. (2022). Pretreatment of Reverse Osmosis Concentrate from Reclaimed Water for Conventional and High-Efficiency Reverse Osmosis and Evaluation of Electrochemical Production of Reagents. ACS ES&T Water, 2(6), 1022-1030. doi:10.1021/acsestwater.2c00015
- Karimi, L., Yacuel, L., Johnson, J. D., Ashby, J., Green, M., Renner, M., Bergman, A., Norwood, R., & Hickenbottom, K. L. (2022). Water-energy tradeoffs in data centers: A case study in hot-arid climates. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 181, 106194.
- Souza-Chaves, B. M., Alhussaini, M. A., Felix, V., Presson, L. K., Betancourt, W. Q., Hickenbottom, K. L., & Achilli, A. (2022). Extending the life of water reuse reverse osmosis membranes using chlorination. Journal of Membrane Science, 642, 119897.
- Hardikar, M., Ikner, L. A., Felix, V., Presson, L. K., Rabe, A. B., Hickenbottom, K. L., & Achilli, A. (2021). Membrane Distillation Provides a Dual Barrier for Coronavirus and Bacteriophage Removal. Environ Sci Technol Lett, acs.estlett.1c00483.
- Rabe, A., Presson, L., Felix, V., Hardikar, M., Hickenbottom, K., Achilli, A., & Ikner, L. A. (2021). Membrane distillation provides a dual barrier for coronavirus and bacteriophage removal. Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., Miller-Robbie, L., Vanneste, J., Marr, J. M., Heeley, M. B., & Cath, T. Y. (2018). Comparative life-cycle assessment of a novel osmotic heat engine and an organic Rankine cycle for energy production from low-grade heat. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 191, 490-501.
- Kaviani, S., Kolahchyan, S., Hickenbottom, K. L., Lopez, A. M., & Nejati, S. (2018). Enhanced solubility of carbon dioxide for encapsulated ionic liquids in polymeric materials. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 354, 753-757.
- Kaviani, S., Kolahchyan, S., Hickenbottom, K. L., Lopez, A. M., & Nejati, S. (2018). Enhanced solubility of carbon dioxide for encapsulated ionic liquids in polymeric materials. Chemical Engineering Journal, 354, 753-757.
- Vanneste, J., Bush, J. A., Hickenbottom, K. L., Marks, C. A., Jassby, D., Turchi, C. S., & Cath, T. Y. (2018). Novel thermal efficiency-based model for determination of thermal conductivity of membrane distillation membranes. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 548, 298-308.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., Vanneste, J., Miller-Robbie, L., Deshmukh, A., Elimelech, M., Heeley, M. B., & Cath, T. Y. (2017). Techno-economic assessment of a closed-loop osmotic heat engine. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 535, 178-187.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., Vanneste, J., & Cath, T. Y. (2016). Assessment of alternative draw solutions for optimized performance of a closed-loop osmotic heat engine. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 504, 162-175.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., Vanneste, J., Elimelech, M., & Cath, T. Y. (2016). Assessing the current state of commercially available membranes and spacers for energy production with pressure retarded osmosis. DESALINATION, 389, 108-118.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., & Cath, T. Y. (2014). Sustainable operation of membrane distillation for enhancement of mineral recovery from hypersaline solutions. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 454, 426-435.
- Hickenbottom, K. L., Hancock, N. T., Hutchings, N. R., Appleton, E. W., Beaudry, E. G., Xu, P., & Cath, T. Y. (2013). Forward osmosis treatment of drilling mud and fracturing wastewater from oil and gas operations. DESALINATION, 312, 60-66.
Proceedings Publications
- Hickenbottom, K., Hutchings, N., Beaudry, E., Cath, T. Y., & Hancock, N. T. (2011, September/Fall). Reclamation and Reuse of Water from Oil and Gas Wells’ Drilling Muds and Fracturing Waste: A Novel Forward Osmosis Approach. In 26th Annual WateReuse Symposium.