Chercheurs

Technologie / YANG, WU QIANG

wuqiang.yang

Position

Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, University of Manchester's Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, United Kingdom.

Thèmes de recherche

- Sensors and transducers
- Computer-based instrumentation (micro-controller, DSP, Transputer, PC, their interface and programming)
- Measurement and control (multi-phase flow measurement, multi-interface level measurement, cross- correlation velocity measurement and intelligent control)
- Industrial process tomography and image reconstruction algorithms
- Parallel data processing
- Electrostatic gyroscopes and inertial navigation systems.

His current research is focused on industrial process tomography, especially electrical capacitance tomography (ECT).

Prix et récompenses

1997 IEE Measurement Prize for outstanding work in the development of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT).
1997 Honeywell Prize from the Institute of Measurement and Control for a co-authored paper
2000 IEE Ayrton Premium for a paper

Publications

Journal papers since 2002

S.X.Yang and W.Q.Yang, A portable stray-immune capacitance meter, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 73 (4), 2002, pp 1958-1961

S.Liu, W.Q.Yang, and F.Jiang, Tomographic imaging of the bottom zone of square circulating fluidised beds, AIChE Journal, 48 (8), 2002, pp 1631-1638

, S.Liu, W.Q.Yang and F.Jiang, Application of electrical capacitance tomography with dual sensors, J. of Instrumentation Technology and Sensors, (accepted)

, S.Liu, W.Q.Yang and F.Jiang, Application of an AC-based ECT system, Chinese J. of Scientific Instrument, (accepted)

S.Liu, H.Xu, W.Q.Yang and F.Jiang, Tomographic imaging of the bottom part of CFBs, J of Engineering Thermophysics, (accepted)

W.Q.Yang, A.L.Stott and J.C.Gamio, Analysis of the effect of stray capacitance on AC-based capacitance transducer for tomography, IEEE Trans. on Instrum. Meas., (in refereeing)

W.Q.Yang and L.H.Peng, Image reconstruction algorithms for electrical capacitance tomography, Meas. Sci. Technol. (invited review article)

Conference papers since 2002

W.Q.Yang, V.T.Nuguyen, M.Betting, A.Chonodrosios, S.Nuttras, F.T.Okimoto and H.McCann, Imaging wet gas flow in supersonic separator by capacitance tomography, Proc. of SPIE Conf.: Visualisation and Data Analysis, 21-22 Jan. 2002, San Jose, USA, Vol. 4665, pp 347-358

D.Geogakopoulos and W.Q.Yang, Spectroscopic ECT/ERT system, Conf. on Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software Technologies (PREP), 17-19 April 2002, Nottingham, UK

D.Geogakopoulos, R.C.Waterfall and W.Q.Yang, Optimisation of lock-in amplifier design for detection of demodulated signals in Gaussian noise, 2nd Int. Symp. on Process Tomography in Poland, 11-12 Sept. 2002, Wroclaw, Poland (accepted)

D.Geogakopoulos, N.Polydorides, C.Dunne and W.Q.Yang, An electrical capacitance/resistance tomography system based on laboratory instruments, 2nd Int. Symp. on Process Tomography in Poland, 11-12 Sept. 2002, Wroclaw, Poland (accepted)

W.Q.Yang and L.H.Peng, Review of image reconstruction algorithms for electrical capacitance tomography, Part 1: Principles, 2nd Int. Symp. on Process Tomography in Poland, 11-12 Sept. 2002, Wroclaw, Poland (accepted)

W.Q.Yang and L.H.Peng, Review of image reconstruction algorithms for electrical capacitance tomography, Part 2: Evaluation, 2nd Int. Symp. on Process Tomography in Poland, 11-12 Sept. 2002, Wroclaw, Poland (accepted)

Book chapter since 2002

S.Liu, L.Fu and W.Q.Yang, The physical mathematical and informational problems in electrical tomography, in 100 Cross-Disciplinary Challenges in the 21 Century, (in printing)

W.Q.Yang, Capacitance tomography, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technolgy, (invited article), 2003.