Vision Based Measurement in the Power Generation and Food Handling Industries
- When?
- Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Students, Staff
Professor Yong Yan, Department of Electronics, University of Kent
Abstract:
Vision based measurement is becoming increasingly widespread in many industrial sectors. Such measurement is required either off-line, i.e., samples are taken from an industrial process and then measured in a laboratory, or on-line continuously, ie, no samples are taken and the measurement is undertaken during process operation. This seminar presents recent advances in the development of vision based techniques for on-line measurement of combustion flame characteristics and off-line/on-line measurement of granular and particulate materials in the power generation and food handling industries.
Low-cost imaging hardware is employed in conjunction with advanced image processing algorithms in order to ensure the cost-effectiveness of the measurement systems. A range of quantitative parameters is derived from the images of the interested targets for efficiency improvement, emission reduction and product quality control. Vision based measurement systems have advantages over conventional techniques in that they are non-intrusive, non-destructive, efficient and cost effective. The developed systems have been applied for the advanced monitoring of fossil fuel fired flames in furnaces and the classification of food grains, biomass particles and pulverized coal. Soft computing techniques have also been incorporated to achieve authentication of granular food products.
Notes:
Yong YAN started his academic career in 1988 as an Assistant Lecturer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. In 1989 he joined the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, as a Research Assistant. After a short period of postdoctoral research, he worked initially as a lecturer with the University of Teesside during 1993-1996, and then as a senior lecturer, reader and professor, respectively, with the University of Greenwich during 1996-2004. He is currently a Professor of Electronic Instrumentation and the Head of Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Research Group at the University of Kent. He has published 170 research papers and completed more than 30 externally funded research projects as a principal investigator. In recognition of his outstanding contributions in the fields of solids flow metering and flame imaging, he was awarded the Achievement Medal by the IEE in 2003 and the IET’s prize for Engineering Innovation in 2006. He serves as an academic member of DTI National Measurement Systems’ Flow Measurement Working Group, member of the Executive Team of the IET Measurement PN, and a member of the IOP ISAT Group. He is a Guang-Biao Guest Professor at Zhejiang University and Yangtzi Scholar at Tianjin University, China.