Temperature monitoring company TempLink serves the medical and food industries and has been used in grocery stores, vaccine clinics, school cafeterias, locker plants and meat markets. The company has now extended its product application to the ethanol industry. “Every single plant has problems with temperature,” says in place so you can act on those problems before the temperature becomes a bigger issue.”
Although the company started up last November, the product has existed for four years, initially developed by BWR Innovations, explains Tharaldson. The TempLink system uses sensors that send temperature readings to a gateway, then displays them on a dashboard. Users are able to set a temperature range that they want maintained. Then, whenever temperatures go above or below that range, an alarm message is sent to the phones and emails of anyone monitoring the system.
In late 2023, Tharaldson Ethanol integrated the TempLink system into the plant’s motor control center (MCC) and server rooms, explains Ryan Carter, COO of Tharaldson. “Those servers and mo- tor buckets generate a ton of heat when running. If the HVAC system fails, it rapidly increases the temperature of those rooms and will cause failure,” Carter says. “I’ve been called in the middle of the night and have had to run out to the office because our system went down, and our servers literally sounded like a jet engine going off trying to keep it cool when we lost our HVAC system.” The dashboard and system are user-friendly and are a comparatively affordable option to a system provided by an automation company, explains Carter. He plans to extend sensor application even further, using TempLink sensors to monitor bearing temperatures, heat trace activity, VFD, process flows, cooling tower activity and more.
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