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.