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Wireless Remote Temperature Indication system

08/09/2007 2:38 AM

Dear All,

I am working in a refinery which mainly produces gasoline, kerosine, diesel, jet fuels, etc. ,

and looking for Wireless Remote Temperature Indication system to be installed for our motors.

Need to have a temperature sensor installed on the bearing housing of None Driving End & Driving End.

This temperature sensor could be infra red type device, or any suitable device,

mounted on the surface of the bearing housing.

Those two sensors per motor should transmit the temperature back to a nearby substation.

The distance between each motor and the substation varies between 50 meters 200 meters.

The motors are located in Class I, Div. 2 area classification.

So, the sensor and its associated gadgets should be suitable for such application.

Off course, each motor will be surrounded by pipelines, steel structure, beams, etc. .

Clear line of sight is not expected.

In the substation, we should have the unit data controller.

Those unit data controllers should be communicating with the main data collector and logger located in the

Central Control Room.

Communications link between Central Control Room and substations could be via wires or wireless.

The data collector & logger should have the features to indicate alarms, trend, print alarms, etc. .

Your feed back & recommendation will be appreciated.

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Re: Wireless Remote Temperature Indication system

08/09/2007 7:57 AM

Is this a hazardous-area-certified motor-pump assembly or a home-brew one? Is adding on a trip the right way to go or is eliminating the cause of the concern a better one? Is there a planned-preventative-maintenance schedule running on the equipment? If not, then what is going to happen when the trip is inactive due to fault or indeed bypassed in the dead of night in desperation so as to keep the plant going?

The bearing could be wearing away, or faulty. Replacing the bearing, or possibly the whole pump, might obviate the need to add a temperature trip to the equipment; careful selection and installation of the correct equipment might be the better, safer, way to go?

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Re: Wireless Remote Temperature Indication system

08/10/2007 9:07 AM

Is there a reason that you feel you need to go wireless on this particular application? What is your current DCS system, do you even have one? A lot of times, we bring the pillar bearing temperature back to the switchgear and keep the trending function in a multilin relay protecting the motor. Do you have this equipment?

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