Kevin Henke
Part-time Instructor
B.A. Doane College, 1979
M.S., 1984; Ph.D., North Dakota, 1997

Currently, Dr. Henke is involved in research on the chemistry and stability of mercury and other heavy metal precipitates that result from the use of commercial water treatment products. The effective use of any commercial product requires basic information on the chemistry of the product and the chemistry and stability of the resulting precipitates. Dr. Henke has found that the chemical properties of several popular water treatment products are very different than the manufacturer's claims. Some of the commercial compounds actually produce previously unreported toxic by-products, including CS2, when they react with dissolved heavy metals.

*Matlock, M.M.; Henke, K.R.; Atwood, D.A.; Robertson, D., “Aqueous Leaching Properties and Environmental Implications of Cadmium, Lead and Zinc Trimercaptotriazine (TMT) Compounds” Water Research, in press.

*Matlock, M.M.; *Howerton, B.S.; Henke, K.R.; Atwood, D.A., 2001, “A Pyridine-Thio Ligand with Multiple Bonding Sites for Heavy Metal Precipitation.” Journal of Hazardous Materials, B82, pp. 55-63.

Perkins, D. and K.R. Henke, 2000, Minerals in Thin Section, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Henke, K.R.; Robertson, J.D.; *Krepps, M.K.; Atwood, D.A., 2000, "Chemistry and Stability of Precipitates from Aqueous Solutions of 2,4,6- Trimercaptotriazine, Trisodium Salt, Nonahydrate (TMT-55) and Mercury (II) Chloride," Water Research, 34(11) pp. 3005-3013.

*Hutchison, A.R.; Henke, K.R.; *Twyman, J.T.; Atwood, D.A., 2000, "The Determination of the Acid Dissociation Constants of Trithiocyanuric Acid," Abstracts and Program of 32nd American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting, May, p. 206.

Henke, K.R.; *Hutchison, A.R.; *Krepps, M.K.; M.M. Matlock; and D.A. Atwood, 1999, "Chemical Precipitation of Mercury: Commercial Claims and New Approaches," Energeia, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky.

Henke, K.R., 1998, "Chemistry of Heavy Metal Precipitates Resulting from Reactions with Thio-Red®," Water Environment Research, v. 70, n. 6, September-October, pp. 1178-1185.

Henke, K. and D.A. Atwood, 1998, "Group 2 Complexes of 2,4,6-Trimercaptotriazine (TMT)," Inorganic Chemistry, v. 37, pp. 224-227.

Henke, K.R.; Bryan, J.C. and Elless, M.P., 1997, "Structure and Powder Diffraction Pattern of 2,4,6-Trimercapto-s-triazine, Trisodium Salt (Na3S3C3N3•9H2O)," Powder Diffraction, v. 12, n. 1, March, pp. 7-12.

Henke, K.R.; Bogle, M.A., and Turner, R.R., 1996, The Subsurface Hydrology around Building 9201-2: Results of the July 1994 Water Level Recovery Test, Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6036, Y/ER-263, 42pp.

Henke, K.R.; Kühnel, V.; Stepan, D.J.; Fraley, R.H.; Robinson, C.M.; Charlton, D.S.; Gust, H.M.; and Bloom, N.S., 1993, Critical Review of Mercury Contamination Issues Relevant to Manometers at Natural Gas Industry Sites: GRI-93/0117, Gas Research Institute, Chicago, 110pp.

*Students from the Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky.