Prof. Wuqiang Yang, FIEEE, CEng of University of Manchester, UK

Among various industrial tomography modalities, electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is the most mature and has been used for many challenging applications. ECT is obviously based on measuring capacitance and reconstructing permittivity distribution. ECT has advantages of no radioactive, rapid response, both non-intrusive and non-invasive, withstanding high temperature and high pressure and of low-cost. Because of extremely small capacitance to be measured (down to 0.0001 pF) and the soft-field nature, ECT does present challenges in circuit design, inverse problem and engineering. Our latest AC-based ECT system can generate online images at 300 frames per second with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 73 dB, and has been used in many challenging applications. During this talk, the principle of ECT will be introduced and some industrial applications will be discussed in detail, together with a demonstration of an AC-based ECT system.

Biography:

Professor Wuqiang Yang (FIET, FInstMC, FIEEE, CEng)  received his BEng (Distinction) 1982, MSc 1985 and PhD (Distinction) 1988, from Tsinghua University. After 3 years as a Lecturer at Tsinghua University, he joined UMIST in 1991. His research is focused on electrical capacitance tomography (ECT), has published 300 papers and a book "Sensor Array", and holds 10 patents, including 2 WO patents, which have been licensed to industry. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. IM and an editorial board member of 7 other journals, including Meas. Sci. Technol. and Sensor Review, and reviews papers for 40 journals, including 6 IEEE journals. He has been invited by many universities and research institutions worldwide and international conferences to give lectures/seminars/keynotes. He is a visiting professor at 8 universities, including MIT, and Tsinghua University. He is recognised by International Center for Scientific Research (France), as one of top 30 technology researchers in the world, and Intota as an expert. Since 2010, he is an IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer.

Address:Manchester, United Kingdom