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Online temperature monitoring

Online temperature monitoring

Online temperature monitoring

(OP)
Good evening everybody!
Looking for some inspiration.
We came up with ways and means to monitor the temperature of the energized components using wireless technology. It is easily retrofittable into the existing equipment.
We could monitor, for example, the switchgear connections that today could be checked only during the PM shutdowns or via IR scanning.
Do you see any value in this technology?

RE: Online temperature monitoring

Suggestion: More expensive processes or more safety related applications will be interested in that technology. Obviously, a power supply distribution for "bird-watching" may or may not be that interested in it.

RE: Online temperature monitoring


This is an interesting technology with many useful applications. There are two systems available now (1) the Valley Group and (2) EPRI. I have evaluated both and they both seem to be effective. Please write more details about your system.

RE: Online temperature monitoring

But if the application is that critical, wouldn't it make more sense to use an imaging infrared system so that you can monitor an entire subsystem?  

Obviously, the major stumbling block is the high price, but once the cost comes down to. say, less than $3,000 per system, it might be worth the expense for the higher end systems.

TTFN

RE: Online temperature monitoring

(OP)
We belive that the online TMS would provide much more accurate information on the condition of equipment. It is by far more accurate when applied to the enclosed equipment. There are no need to remove the barriers, further more it would produce the actual temperature of the equipment components (fingerclusters, for example) that could never be seen by the IR scan.
We also plotted this information onto the actual load profile using the available power monitoring system

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