Thermal Risk · Field record

Ten years of Thermalpas in the field.

The field record behind Thermal Risk: Thermalpas sensor deployments in Taiwan. 39 field records across 8 industries, electrical first.

  • 39field records
  • 8industries
  • 10+years of Thermalpas service

Electrical deployments

Illustration Power & Electrical · Generator busbars, 16.5 kV / 10,000 A Taipower Mingtan: ten years of busbar monitoring, no thermal incidents 10 yrsIn service since 2015 Read case Illustration Power & Electrical · LV panel busbar junctions LV distribution panels: three anomalies caught before the red threshold 3Anomalies caught before red (5 yrs) Read case Illustration Semiconductor & Hi-Tech · VFD DC-link capacitors TSMC: 1,000+ VFD capacitor sensors since 2018, zero failures 1,000+Sensors since 2018 Read case

All field deployments

Every record below is a Thermalpas field deployment in Taiwan, unless the case page notes otherwise.

Showing 39 cases

Illustration Power & Electrical · Boiler soot-blower valves FPCC Mailiao Ten-year loss baseline NT$128.5M Illustration Power & Electrical · HV busbars Confidential Shutdown inspections replaced; payback in year one Illustration Power & Electrical · Busway tap boxes Andakon (TECOBAR) Overheating socket found 6 months early Illustration Power & Electrical · HV capacitor banks Multiple power plants Degraded cell found; $25K planned repair Illustration Power & Electrical · PV DC combiner boxes AU Optronics 8 joint degradations caught pre-arc in 3 years Illustration Power & Electrical · Fly-ash hoppers Coal-fired power plant, Taiwan 5 years, zero ignition events Illustration Power & Electrical · Soot-blower angle valves Taipower thermal plants 23-hour manual blind spot → continuous Illustration Power & Electrical · Substation busbar joints Shopping mall substation, New Taipei Joints judged by temperature rise against a K-value limit Illustration Power & Electrical · Basement substation equipment Public sports centre substation, Taichung Surface sensors written into the project specification Illustration Power & Electrical · UPS main panels and capacitors Petrochemical group UPS rooms Surface sensors as one layer of a five-layer UPS protection design Illustration Power & Electrical · LV switch-box cables Public-infrastructure LV switchboards One N-TYPE sensor per phase at the breaker terminal Illustration Semiconductor & Hi-Tech · Fab power cables and joints UMC 2 cable-joint anomalies caught in 3 years Illustration Semiconductor & Hi-Tech · Wastewater tanks and pipes TSMC Nanjing 12-inch fab Large-area sensing on curved wastewater tanks and pipes Illustration Semiconductor & Hi-Tech · PFA chemical dosing lines Chemical dosing line demo Demo: clamp-on readings moved in step with the insertion thermometer Illustration Semiconductor & Hi-Tech · FRP recovery-liquid tanks Semiconductor wastewater recovery tanks Surface sensors on FRP tank walls, photographed February 2025 Illustration Heavy Industry · Conveyor bearings Power plants and steelmakers Same sensor in service for 10 years Illustration Heavy Industry · Rotary kiln shell Confidential cement plant Shell temperature profile around the refractory zones Illustration Heavy Industry · High-temperature exhaust stack Confidential chemical plant +8°C drift flagged; weld crack found Illustration Heavy Industry · Industrial motors (OEM) TECO Electric & Machinery Standard TECO motor option since 2016 Illustration Heavy Industry · Oil-sealed reaction tanks Confidential chemical plant Same unit in service since 2011 Illustration Heavy Industry · Pump motors and utility systems Optoelectronics fab, Tainan 29 sensing sets in phase 1; phase 2 under way Illustration Heavy Industry · SMT-line blowers Panasonic Electric Taiwan 90% less unplanned blower downtime Illustration Heavy Industry · Sealing rollers Food & beverage packaging Reject rate 2.5% → 0.3% Illustration Heavy Industry · Press rollers Confidential printer 60% fewer color-mismatch rejects Illustration Heavy Industry · UV-cure lamp rollers Confidential packaging house 0.8% yield improvement Illustration Heavy Industry · Embossing rollers Artificial-turf manufacturer Trial: stable signal, about ±2°C error; adoption scheduled Illustration Transportation · EMU axles and equipment boxes Taiwan Railways (TRA) Fitted across nearly the whole EMU fleet Illustration Transportation · Tunnel-fan bearings TRTC (Taipei MRT) Bearing degradation at 4 stations in 3 months Illustration Transportation · Suspension cables Public Works Bureau 24 monitoring points, 3 years in operation Illustration Telecom & Data Center · Chiller supply/return pipes Taiwan Mobile 2 chiller degradations caught in year one Illustration Retail & Commercial · HVAC chiller pipes Carrefour Taiwan In production across 60+ stores since 2017 Illustration Retail & Commercial · Commercial freezer compressors Apacer Technology 50+ anomalies caught; 30+ campuses Illustration Retail & Commercial · Chillers and cooling towers Commercial chiller plant, Taiwan 52 pipe-clamp sensors; inlet, outlet and ΔT for every unit Illustration Construction & R&D · Mass concrete pours Major contractor Audit-grade curing record for inspectors Illustration Construction & R&D · Water and steam pipes NARLabs ITRC 1 device replaces 2 sensors Illustration Healthcare Cold Chain · Medical and lab freezers Medical centers and biotech labs 3 compressor anomalies caught in year one

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