Wireless network includes heat flow sensors

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 15, 2006

SPC ready wireless sensor network includes heat flow sensors, data acquisition and digital processing modules and analysis, visualisation and control software.

Pangaea Technology has launched a statistical process control (SPC) ready wireless sensor network based around the measurement of heat transfer in industrial processes following a partnership agreement with Thermoflux Technologies.

This includes heat flow sensors, data acquisition and digital processing modules as well as analysis, visualisation and control software.

The system incorporates heat flux sensor variants such as the HDFS to monitor thermal events, including structural changes, taking place in processed materials.

There are low profile conductive heat flux sensors for measurement of heat transfer across surfaces such as pipe walls, radiative sensors and application specific sensors such as those specified for autoclaves and industrial ovens.

The information gathered from the sensors can be combined with other data to complete a process database necessary for full SPC.

The system includes data acquisition and communication modules which allow wireless transmission for up to 70 heat flux sensors.

The sensors measure the rate of thermal energy flow per unit area (heat flux).

The polarity of the heat flux signal indicates the direction of heat flow; its magnitude is directly proportional to heat flux.