Dr. Timothy C. Eisele

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Michigan Technological University
College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering
FacultyAppointed: 2009

Mailing Address

Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan 49931
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (906) 487-2017
tceisele@mtu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, Particulate Processing/Extractive Metallurgy, 1991.

Expertise and Research Interests

Have gained expertise by conducting research in the following specific areas:

- Coal desulfurization (including co-authoring a book on the subject)
- Flue-gas scrubber sludge processing
- Foundry sand binders
- Fly-ash processing and utilization
- Development and testing of binders for ore agglomeration
- Agglomeration for copper leaching
- CO2 capture and sequestration
- Oxidative bacterial leaching of pyrite and copper sulfides
- Froth flotation of minerals, including column flotation
- Size and density classification using hydrocyclones
- Modeling of mineral grinding circuits to improve energy efficiency
- Temperature and viscosity effects on mineral grinding circuits

Future Research

- Reductive bacterial leaching and electrowinning of iron from ore
- Accelerated mineral weathering for sequestration of carbon dioxide, and production of synthetic clays and zeolites from rapidly-weathered minerals

Industrial Relevance

Research work is relevant to industries that recover metals and industrial minerals from ores, than process or utilize coal, and that carry out other mineral and particulate processing operations.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Carbon Dioxide, Coal Chemistry, Coal Desulfurization, Coal Processing, Energy Environmental Sciences, Energy Sciences, Global Warming, Materials Processing Engineering, Mining Engineering, Separation Process, Separations Chemistry.

Additional Terms:

Bacterial Leaching, Extractive Metallurgy, Iron Processing, Reductive Leaching.

Memberships

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration

Patents

Production of Iron using Environmentally-Benign Renewable or Recycled Reducing Agents, Patent Number: 7632330, 2009, Institution, United States of America.
Method for Producing Powder from Polycrystalline Inorganic Material, Patent Number: 5524836, 1996, Institution, United States of America.
Flotation Column With Adjustable Supported Baffles, Patent Number: 5335785, 1994, Institution, United States of America.
Process for Extracting Oxygen and Iron from Iron-Oxide-Containing Ores, Patent Number: 4997533, 1991, Institution, United States of America.
On-Line Slurry Ash Analyzer, Patent Number: 4916719, 1990, Institution, United States of America.

Funding Received

  • United States Department of Energy (DOE): Direct Biohydrometallurgical Extraction of Iron from Ore, $50,000, 2003 to 2005.

Publications

  • Kawatra, S. K., Eisele, T. C. (2001) Coal Desulfurization, First Edition, Vol. 1, none, New Yor,, Taylor and Francis, 360 pages, ISBN=978-905699696

Profile Details

Last Updated: 2/24/2010

COS Expertise ID #327513
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