Environmental Research Institute

• Energy Studies

• Renewable Energy and the Environment
• Climate Change

• Feb 1985 - Sep 1996
  Associate Professor (1996), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changsha University, China
• Sept 1996 - Oct 1999
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China.
• Jan1999 - Sept 1999
  Senior Visiting Scholar of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China
• Oct 1999 - Oct 2001
  Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Leicester University, UK
• Oct 2001 - Jan 2005
  Senior Research Associate, School of Engineering, University of Durham, UK
• July 2004 to August, 2009
  Director, Shalie Teaching & Technology Ltd, UK
• Jan 2008 - Present
  Visiting Professor, North China Electric Power University, China.
• Jan 2005 - Aug, 2009
  Innovation Fellow/Research Associate, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Faculty of Engineering, Loughborough University

Qualifications:

• 1981
  BEng, Department of Electrical Engineering at Hunan University, China,
• 1996
  MEng, Department of Automatic Control, Central South University, China.
• 2000
  PhD, Info-Physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, China.

Professional membership:

• Member Energy Institute (EI), UK, 2008
• Member Engineering Integrity Society, UK, 2008
• Active Member Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2006
• Member IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Power Electronics, Society, IEEE Computer Society, 2001

• Simon J. Watson, Beth J. Xiang, Wenxian X. Yang, Peter J. Tavner, and C. Crabtree, Condition Monitoring of the Power Output of a Wind Turbine Doubly-Fed Induction Generator using Wavelets, Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions, Volume: PP Issue:99 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2010.2040083
• Haitao Guo, Simon Watson, Peter Tavner, Jiangping Xiang . Reliability analysis for wind turbines with incomplete failure data collected, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 January 2009
• S J Watson, B J Xiang, W X Yang, P J Tavner and C Crabtree, Condition monitoring of a wind turbine doubly-fed induction generator, EWEC (European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition), Parc Chanot, Marseille, France, 16 – 19 March 2009
• Haitao Guo, Xianhui Yang, Jianping Xiang, Simon Watson, Wind Turbine Availability Analysis Based On Statistical Data, International conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, China
• Jianping Xiang, Simon Watson, Yongqian Liu, Smart monitoring of wind turbines using neural networks, International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, 2009, UK,
• Jianping Xiang, Wind Energy in China, the ninth annual edition of Renewable Energy, 2009.
• Edwin Wiggelinkhuizen, Theo Verbruggen, Henk Braam, Luc Rademakers, Jianping Xiang, Simon Watson,Assessment of Health Monitoring Techniques for Offshore Wind Farms- Results of the CONMOW project? ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August 2008 -- Volume 130, Issue 3, 031004 (9 pages).
• Watson, S.J. and Xiang, J., “Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbine Drive Trains’’, Sustainable Energy UK Conference: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, Oxford, May 2008,
• Xiang, J. and Watson, S.J., “Practical Condition Monitoring Techniques for Offshore Wind Turbines”, EWEC, Brussels Expo, Belgium, April 2008, PO.195.
• Tavner, P., Xiang, J. and Spinato, F., ''Reliability Analysis for Wind Turbines'', Wind Energy, 10(1), January 2007, pp. 1-18, ISSN 0309 524X.
• Xiang, J. , Jishan He, Discussion on the renewable energy technology and management in the UK, CHINA ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT FORUM, 2007 (In Chinese).
• Jingfnag Chen, Jishan He, Jianping Xiang, Runqiu Teng, Engineering Management and Education in the UK, CHINA ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT FORUM, 2007 (In Chinese).
• Mueller, M.A., Xiang, J., Baker, N.J. and Brooking, P.R.M., ‘’Dynamic Modelling of a Linear Vernier Hybrid Permanent Magnet Machine Coupled to a Wave Energy Emulator Test Rig’’, Recent Developments of Electrical Drives, Wiak S, Dems M, Komeza K, Springer, Germany, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4020-4534.
• Xiang, J., Cheng, D., Schlindwein, F.S. and Jones, N.B., ``On the Adequacy of Identified Cole-Cole Models``, Computers & Geosciences, 29(5), April 2003, pp. 647-654, ISSN 0098 3004.
• Xiang, J., Jones, N.B., Cheng, D. and Schlindwein, F.S., ''A New Method to Discriminate Between a Vallid IP Response and EM Coupling Effects'', Geophysical Prospecting, 50(6), November 2002, pp. 565-576, ISSN 0016 8025.
• Xiang, J., Jones, N.B., Cheng, D. and Schlindwein, F.S., ''Direct Inversion of the Apparent Complex-Resistivity Spectrum'', Geophysics, 66(5), September 2001, pp. 1399-1404, ISSN 0016 8033.

• Wind turbine condition monitoring system, Innovation program, East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA), UK, 2009
• Risk, reliability, and safety engineering solutions for wind power, Ministry of Education, China, 2008
• Non-linear multi-frequency processing of geophysical signals using neural network with fuzzy logic, Royal Society Fellowship, 1999

Completed:

• Colm Fox, Claire Brown, G. Daniels, Business School, Loughborough University, (MBA, 2008), ‘Caution to the wind - a Novel Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring System’
• Emre Acar, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University, (MSc, 2008) , ‘Fault detection in wind turbine generators’
• Carl .S. Joseph, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University, (MSc, 2008) , ‘Feasibility study of SCADA data for component characteristics of wind turbines and fault prediction of wind turbines’
• Haitao Guo, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University and Tsinghua University, (PhD, 2007), ‘Reliability Analysis of Wind Turbines’
• Wen-pao Chiu, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology Loughborough University, (MSc, 2007), ‘Analysis of Wind Turbine SCADA and Maintenance Logs’.

• Acted as journal reviewer for:
  Journal of IET (IEE) Electronic Power Applications.
  Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A (Applied Physics and Engineering).