Dr Hua Wei Kevin Huang

BEng, PhD

Research Associate in Syngas Combustion Flow and Diagnostics

Room D132
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 27899
Fax: +44 (0) 114 22 27890

Email: h.huang@sheffield.ac.uk

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Profile

Hua Wei Kevin Huang received his BEng degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester (attended UMIST and graduated on the year of merge between Manchester and UMIST) in 2005. He then pursued a PhD in Aerospace Engineering immediately after receiving his undergraduate degree, and was a recipient of the OSS (Overseas Student Scholarship, three years full tuition with additional maintenance funds) scholarship from Manchester during PhD degree, of which he successfully completed in July 2009. During this time, he pioneered and demonstrated the applicability of the concept for digital colour-based modelling characterisation of flame radiation features. His original journal publication of digital flame colour diagnostic was selected as one of Measurement Science and Technology’s highlight publications in 2008. Dr. Huang joined the University of Sheffield in December 2009 and was instrumental in the setup of the Combustion and Flow Diagnostics Laboratory (MB26/A), as well as the design, manufacturing and assembly of a fully operational, optical-viewing access modified Siemens combustor rig at Prof. Chris Wilson’s departmental satellite LCCC facility in Beighton.

Research Interests

• Digital colour based combustion analysis techniques
• Flame spectroscopy
• Dynamic flame characteristics in practical industrial-scale combustors
• Flame visualisation
• Combustion characteristics of alternative fuels

Publications

• Syngas combustion profiling through spectormetry and DFCD processing techniques,
  Huang, H. W. & Zhang, Y. (2011),
  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37, pp. 5257-5267,
  Available Online


• Characterisation of external acoustic excitation on diffusion flames using digital colour image processing,
  Huang, H. W., Wang, Q., Tang, H. J., Zhu, M. and Zhang, Y. (2011),
  Fuel, 94, pp. 102-109,
  Available Online


• Analysis of the ignition process using a digital image and colour processing technique,
  Huang, H. W. and Zhang, Y. (2011),
  Measurement Science and Technology, 22(7),
  Available Online (Journal Subscription Required)


• Dynamic application of digital image and colour processing in characterizing flame radiation features, Huang, H. W. and Zhang, Y. (2010),
  Measurement Science and Technology, 21(8),
  Available Online (Journal Subscription Required)


• Digital colour image processing based measurement of premixed CH4+air and C2H4+air flame chemiluminescence,
  Huang, H.W. & Zhang, Y. (2010),
  Fuel, 90(1), pp. 48-53


• Fuel effects on diffusion flames at elevated pressures,
  Gohari Darabkhani, H., Bassi., J., Huang, H. W. & Zhang, Y. (2009),
  Fuel, 88(2), pp. 264-2571.


• Flame colour characterization in the visible and infrared spectrum using a digital camera and image processing,
  Huang, H. W. & Zhang, Y. (2008),
  Measurement Science and Technology, 19(8)
  Available Online (Journal Subscription Required)