UT Arlington awarded Department of Energy grant to develop sensor system for real-time evaluation of boilers

Boiler efficiencyA University of Texas at Arlington engineering professor is developing a distributed wireless antenna sensor system to monitor conditions of coal-fired boilers that will lead to making the units safer, more efficient and eventually producing better designed units. Haiying Huang, professor of sensor technology in the Mechanical and Aerospace Department, said a $399,311 Department of Energy grant will fund the study of sensors to monitor the integrity as well as the heat transfer of the coal-fired boilers. The distributed system employs wireless micrtostrip patch