Barbara Krieger-Brockett
Professor Emeritus of
Chemical Engineering
Contact Information
| 255 Benson Box 351750 Seattle, WA 98195-1750 |
Phone: 206-543-2216 Fax: 206-543-3778 E-mail: krieger-brockett@cheme.washington.edu |
Education
B.S., University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1968.
M.S., Wayne State University, 1972.
Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1976.
Research Interests
Experimental Kinetics, Catalysis; Simulation of Complex Reacting Systems Including Effects of Transport Rates, in situ Diagnostics for Reaction Rate Measurements.
Application to: Bioremediation, Environmental Chemistry, Reactor Design, Air Pollution, Combustion, Fuel Chemistry.
Reaction engineering is a term broadly referring to the study, improvement, and eventual modifications applied to complex reacting systems. Often our objective is to identify the rate-limiting step or reduce the number of undesirable products or selectively enhance the production rate of certain species. Frequently, this can only be accomplished by detailed knowledge of the reaction mechanism. However, this is often a complicated task for interphase reactions owing to both measurement limitations and slow heat and mass transfer rates that obscure the true chemical rates. In a project involving oceanographers, microbiologists, and chemical engineers, we are measuring and mathematically modeling rates of polynuclear aromatic compound degradation by microbes in marine sediment bioremediation.
Selected Recent Publications
B. Krieger-Brockett, and J. Deming; Y. A. Vetter and A. Geiselbrecht, "Quantifying Factors that Influence PAH Biodegradation Rates in Marine Sediments," In-Situ and On-site Bioremediation, in press, 1999.
Adrienne Huston, Jody Deming, B. Krieger-Brockett, "Low-Temperature Extracellular Enzymes from Arctic Bacteria," submitted to Environmental Microbiology, 1999.
Y. A. Vetters, J. W. Deming, P. A. Jumars, B. Krieger-Brockett, "A Predictive Model of Bacterial Foraging by Means of Freely-Released Extracellular Enzymes," Microbial Ecology 36, p.75-92, July-Aug. 1998.
B. Krieger-Brockett, J. W. Deming, R. P. Herwig, "An Assessment of Organic Contaminant Biodegradation Rates in Marine Environments," In Situ On-Site Biorem, Paper, Int. In Situ On-site Biorem Symp, 4th, (4), p 427-432 (1997).
B. Krieger-Brockett, W. C. Lai and W. C. Chan, "Comparisons in Biomass and Refuse Derived Fuel Pyrolysis. Multivariate Analysis Applied to an Experimental Design," Developments in Biomass Thermochemical Biomass Research, Elsevier, p. 43-61, 1997.
Recent M.S. Theses
Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
