Liuyin Xia, PhD, PEng
Pronouns: She/Her
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/lucyxia/introduction?authuser=0
Contact
Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
- liuyin@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-2232
- Address
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12-239 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy
About
Dr. Xia is an assistant professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering at U of A. She is a mineral engineer with an impressive 15-year career dedicated to applied research and development in the field. Her early professional journey was with Central South University in China and Surface Science Western at the University of Western Ontario. She joined the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) in 2018 with world-leading expertise in rare earth processing, where she became a senior research engineer, gaining invaluable experience in operations, research, and consulting.
Lucy’s major areas of focus include the processing of minerals in a greener and circular way. Her research interests would be:·
- Frother and collector chemistry towards froth flotation separation
- Ore characterization including process mineralogy
- Surface and interface chemistry considerations in mineral processing
- Extractive metallurgy such as solvent extraction, purification and effluent treatment
- Design of flotation cells, encompassing both mechanical and pneumatic cells
Courses
CH E 243B - Engineering Thermodynamics
An introduction to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Prerequisites: MATH 101.
CME 421 - Mineral Processing
Unit operations employed to concentrate minerals including comminution, classification, gravity concentration, froth flotation, thickening, filtering; tailings disposal; marketing of minerals; economics. Credit may not be obtained in this course if previous credit has been obtained in MAT E 331. Prerequisite: STAT 235 or consent of Instructor.
Featured Publications
Conference of Metallurgists. 2020 August;
Minerals Engineering. 2019 January; 10.1016/j.mineng.2018.09.023
Applied Surface Science. 2019 January; 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.07.153
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 2019 January; 10.1002/cjce.23562
2019 SME Annual Conference and Expo and CMA 121st National Western Mining Conference. 2019 January;
Conference of Extraction 2018. 2018 August;
Langmuir. 2018 January; 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04189
THE CONFERENCE OF METALLURGISTS. 2017 August;
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals. 2017 January; 10.19476/j.ysxb.1004.0609.2017.08.20
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 2017 January; 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b04566
Surface and Interface Analysis. 2017 January; 10.1002/sia.6295
IMPC 2016 - 28th International Mineral Processing Congress. 2016 January;
IMPC 2016 - 28th International Mineral Processing Congress. 2016 January;
Minerals Engineering. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.mineng.2014.09.008
Hydrometallurgy. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.hydromet.2015.04.012
Minerals Engineering. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.mineng.2015.02.008
Minerals Engineering. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.mineng.2013.11.006
Chemical Engineering Journal. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.cej.2014.07.057
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