Qi Liu, PhD, PEng
Personal Website: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57816810100
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
- qliu@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-8628
- Address
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12-285 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Mineral Processing; Oil Sands Processing; Critical Minerals; Energy Minerals
About
Qi Liu holds a BEng in mineral processing (China) and a MASc and PhD in the same field from UBC. He worked at Wuhan University of Technology and Process Research Associates Limited before joining the University of Alberta in 1998. He is a professor of materials engineering, Ron Nolan/Hatch Chair in Sustainable Energy and Mineral Processing Technologies (2009-2021), and Glencore Chair in Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering.
Research
Qi Liu's research areas are mineral separation, solid-liquid separation, and metal ion separation. His research covers critical minerals and energy minerals. Current research focuses on homo-aggregation flotation (HAF), a novel process for separation of fine and ultrafine mineral particles; bitumen extraction and enrichment from oil sands; oil sands tailings dewatering using coagulation, flocculation, and filtration; metal ion separation using magnetic sorbents and magnetic separation.
Courses
CME 472 - Extractive Metallurgy
Physical and chemical preparation of ore feed. Roasting, briquetting, sintering and pelletizing. Leaching processes and chemicals, kinetics of leaching, ion exchange, activated carbon adsorption, solvent extraction and McCabe-Thiele Diagram. Metal recovery from solutions, electrowinning and electrorefining. Furnaces and fuels, refractories, slags and mattes. Reduction of metal compounds, smelting and converting, pyrometallurgical metal refining. Credit may not be obtained in this course if previous credits have been obtained in MAT E 430 and MAT E 332. Prerequisites: CME 265, MAT E 341, or consent of the Department.
MAT E 204 - Materials Engineering Thermodynamics
Fundamentals of thermodynamics in Materials Engineering. Review of thermodynamic functions. First, second and third laws. Reaction equilibria, stability diagrams. Solution thermodynamics applied to materials processes. Phase relations, free energy-composition diagrams, binary phase diagrams, and introduction to ternary phase diagrams. Electrochemistry. Experimental methods and estimation of thermodynamic data. Prerequisite: CH E 243. Credit may not be obtained in this course if previous credit has been obtained in MAT E 340 or 301.