Professor Yong Yan FREng

Professor of Electronic Instrumentation and Director of Innovation, School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent

Yong Yan has made a distinctive contribution to improving combustion efficiency and lowering emissions through innovation in electronic instrumentation and successful development of novel instruments, thereby making an important impact on the power industry nationally and internationally.

His prize-winning research has supported the better understanding of fuel combustion, through developing digital imaging technology for the quantitative characterisation of burner flames and through developing innovative instruments, measuring the mass flow rate and size distribution of fuel particles in pipelines using advanced sensors and signal processing algorithms. These instruments are marketed commercially and have been installed at full-scale power stations.