Kaiwu Huang
Research Associate
410 Old Turner Street,
311B Holden Hall
311B Holden Hall
Expertise
Flotation, Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Process Simulation, Dewatering
Education
B.S. Mineral Processing Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), 2013
M.S. Mining & Minerals Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2015
Ph.D. Mining & Minerals Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019
- Deinking Flotation for Paper Recycling
- Critical Material Recovery from Coal and Its Byproducts
- Novel Flotation Reagents Development
- Ultrafine Coal Dewatering
- Huang, K., Keles, S., Noble, A., and Yoon, R.-H., “Development of a Flotation Simulator That Can Predict Grade vs. Recovery Curves from Mineral Liberation Data”, Minerals Engineering, 2022, 107510
- Huang, K., and Yoon, R.-H, “Control of Air Bubble ζ-Potential to Improve Bubble-Particle Interactions”, Minerals Engineering, 2020, 106295.
- Huang, K., and Yoon, R.-H., “Surface Forces in the Thin Liquid Films (TLFs) of Water Confined between n-Alkane Drops and Hydrophobic Gold Surfaces”, Langmuir, 35, 2019, 15681-15691,
- Huang, K., and Yoon, R.-H., “Effect of ζ-Potentials on Bubble-Particle Interactions”, Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 36, 2019, 21-34.
- Park, S., Huang, K. and Yoon, R.-H., “Predicting bubble coarsening in flotation froth: Effect of contact angle and particle size”, Minerals Engineering, 127, 2018, 256-264.
- Huang, K., Pan, L. and Yoon, R.-H., “A capillary flow model for filtration”, Minerals Engineering, 115, 2018, 88-96.
- Yoon, R.H., Soni, G., Huang, K., Park, S. and Pan, L., “Development of a turbulent flotation model from first principles and its validation”, International Journal of Mineral Processing, 156, 2016, 43-51.
- Xie, W., He, X., Huang, K., Zhang, Y., Liu, C., “Research on environmental friendly flotation agent”, Advanced Materials Research, 421, 2012, 810-814.
- Xie, W., Huang, K., Wang, D., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., “Study on flotation properties of emulsified diesel oil”, Energy Procedia, 14, 2012, 750-755.