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Friday Research Exchange: Wireless Applications in Industry, the Aluminum Industry as a Prototype
Please join us for "Wireless Applications in Industry, the Aluminum Industry as a Prototype" by Professor James Evans, Professor of Metallurgy and the Plato Malozemoff Professor in Mineral Engineering, at noon on April 21 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley, as part of the Friday Research Exchange. Abstract: Industry consumes a large fraction of the energy supply of this and other developed nations; it is also responsible for emissions including ones contributing to global warming. Consequently industry is worthy of the attention of organizations such as CITRIS. The talk considers one particular industry, the production of aluminum, which is important in terms of energy consumption, emissions and the utility of its product. The production of aluminum employs huge electrolytic cells carrying currents of several hundred thousand amperes; a typical plant has a few hundred such cells, all poorly instrumented. A UC Berkeley project to wirelessly instrument such cells is described and plans for extending wireless instrumentation to other industries are outlined.
Please join us for "Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring with Wireless Accelerometer Network" by Shamim Pakzad from UC Berkeley at noon on April 28 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley, as part of the Friday Research Exchange.
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