Professor Yong Yan and Dr Robert M Carter received a Commendation at the Rushlight Awards 2009 ceremony held at Grand Connaught Rooms, London, on 28th January 2010.
The award was made in recognition of their contributions to developing a technology that is capable of tracking the type of coal being fired on a power plant and monitoring the flame stability in an on-line continuous manner. The technology has been developed as a result of a recently completed project funded under the TSB Technology Programme, in collaboration with RWE npower and E.ON.