Datapaq® Food Tracker® Thermal Profiling System
Key Features
Guarantee food quality while meeting safety requirements
- Maximize product yield and throughput
- Troubleshoot process problems quickly and easily
- Document all processes for you, your customer, and regulatory authorities
- Control variation in food quality, taste, texture, and color
Reliable and accurate HACCP temperature profiling systems for demanding food processing applications.
- Process Analysis: Automatically calculate all process critical control points to satisfy your HACCP requirements.
- Lethality Calculations & Reporting: Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk in your particular process and product (Fo value), ensuring your food is of the highest quality.
- Process Optimization & Fault Finding: Quickly locate the exact position of hot or cold spots in the oven, minimizing production loss.
- Reporting: Generate certified and traceable profile reports to satisfy all your HACCP validation documentation needs.
- Monitoring: Observe the exact moment on your PC when your product reaches the required safe cooking temperature.
The Datapaq Food Tracker temperature profiling systems are comprised of a data logger, a protective thermal barrier, and Insight software. With a Datapaq system, you can guarantee the quality and safety of your cooked meats, poultry, bakery products and ready-to-eat meals.
Datapaq systems, designed to withstand the harshest environments, travel through the oven or freezer with the food product, making a complete record of product temperatures. You can monitor the product temperature of the entire cook/freeze cycle in either static or conveyorized ovens, as well as in steam cookers, deep fat fryers, and blast freezers.
MultiPaq21 Data Logger
The MultiPaq21 data logger has up to eight channels (Type T or K), allowing you to collect product and environmental temperatures from up to eight locations at once. Using flexible thermocouple cables, the temperature sensors can be positioned precisely within the product, on the surface, or in the air. They can record temperatures without the data logger or its mass influencing the response characteristics of the sensors and thus, the accuracy of the readings.
The data logger is designed to withstand the most hostile of food processing applications and is rated to IP67 with special waterproof thermocouple connections protecting against steam, water showers, and routine cleaning procedures. The logger will store up to eight profiles before it need to be downloaded.
Thermal Barriers
Employing the same insulation technology as that used in an aircraft's 'black box', Datapaq thermal barriers are housed in a rugged stainless steel casing, designed to last for many years. Datapaq thermal barriers can withstand the harshest industrial cooking environments, including steam cooking, long-duration high-temperature baking, or even flash frying, where the whole system is submerged in oil.
Unlike some other systems, there is no need to place the data logger inside your product. Since the barrier can be located away from the product, the heating characteristics of the product will not be affected by the monitoring equipment.
Food Tracker Insight Software
Use Insight software to convert raw data into meaningful information about your process, including instant reports on lethality. Features include:
Thermocouples
Thermocouples (Type T or K) are supplied with water-tight connectors and gold-plated connections to provide an IP67 rating for the logger. Reliability and accuracy are guaranteed in the most hostile of environments, including steam, water, and condensation. Thermocouples can be mixed, matched, and interchanged according to the type of process and product. Thermocouple cable lengths can also be customized to match the exact requirements of the process.
Technical Specs
Multipaq21 Datalogger
| Model Number | DP2162A | DP2166A | DP2182A | DP2186A |
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| Thermocouple | Type T | Type K | Type T | Type K |
| Channels | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Temperature measurement range | -196ºC to 400ºC (-320ºF to 752ºF) | -150ºC to 1370ºC (-238ºF to 2498ºF) | -196ºC to 400ºC (-320ºF to 752ºF) | -150ºC to 1370ºC (-238ºF to 2498ºF) |
| Real-time monitoring | Hardwired (via comms cable) | Hardwired (via comms cable) RF telemetry option (TM21) | ||
| Humidity option | No | Yes, requires PA2020 Humidity Sensor | ||
| Accuracy | ±0.2ºC (±0.4ºF) | |||
| Resolution | ±0.1ºC (±0.2ºF) | |||
| Operating temperature | -40ºC to 85ºC (-40ºF to 185ºF) | |||
| Protection | IP67 without thermal barrier | |||
| Sample interval | 0.5 seconds to 50 minutes (standard use–temperature only) 2.0 seconds to 50 minutes (humidity measurement) | |||
| Memory | 1.81MB 16 hours data collection (8 thermocouples / 0.5 second sampling) | |||
| Operation | Rechargeable NiMH (recharge time 2.5 hours) | |||
| Battery | Multiple Runs (up to 8 individual repeat runs before download) | |||
| Battery Life | Temperature, only (0.5 second sample interval) = 120 hours Telemetry (2.0 second sample interval) = 65 hours | |||
Thermal Barriers TB5000 Series Technical Specs
| Model Number | TB5009 | TB5010 | TB5011 | TB5016 |
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| Application | Non-submersible / short bake/roast processes | Non-submersible / long bake / roast processes | Non-submersible / short bake / roast processes | Heavy duty / waterproof / ham cook / chill processes |
| Dimensions | 60 x 204 x 394 mm (2.4 x 8 x 15.5”) | 100 x 219 x 393 mm (3.9 x 8.6 x 15.5”) | 40 x 195 x 384 mm (1.6 x 7.7 x 15.1”) | 120 x 206 x 401 mm (4.7 x 8.1 x 15.8”) |
| Weight | 4.4 kg (9.7 lb) | 6 kg (13.2 lb) | 3 kg (6.6 lb) | 6.3 kg (13.9 lb) |
| Heatsink | NA | TB1001 (1.0 kg / 2.2 lbs) | NA | TB1001 x 2 (2 x 1.0 kg / 2.2 lbs) |
| Thermal duration | 1.5 hrs @ -100ºC (2-148ºF) 3 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 1.75 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 1.25 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 1 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 10 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 5.5 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 3.75 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 2.5 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 150 min @ 100ºC (212ºF) 60 min @ 150ºC (302ºF) 40 min @ 200ºC (392ºF) 35 min @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 17 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 8 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 5 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 4 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) |
| IP Rating | IP65 | IP67 | ||
Thermal Barriers TB5800 Series Technical Specs
| Model Number | TB5815 | TB5816 | TB5817 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Submersible/short fry / steam cook processes | Submersible / long fry/steam cook processes | Pressure cook processes* |
| Dimensions | 40 x 198 x 398 mm (1.6 x 7 x 15.7”) | 65 x 240 x 393 mm (2.6 x 9.4 x 15.5”) | 105 x 150 x 360mm (4.1 x 5.9 x 14.2”) |
| Weight | 3.1 kg (6.8 lb) | 5.3 kg (11.7 lb) | 6.3 kg (13.9 lb) |
| Heatsink | NA | TB9707 x 2 (2 x 0.4 kg / 0.9 lbs) | TB1001 x 2 (2 x 1.0 kg / 2.2 lbs) |
| Thermal duration Time - Air | 37 min @ -100ºC (-148ºF) 120 min @ 100ºC (212ºF) 60 min @ 150ºC (302ºF) 45 min @ 200ºC (392ºF) 40 min @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 6.5 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 3.5 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 2.5 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 1.75 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 14 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 7.5 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 4.5 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 3.5 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) |
| Thermal duration Time - Water / Oil | 60 min @ 100ºC (212ºF) 30 min @ 150ºC (302ºF) 22 min @ 200ºC (392ºF) 20 min @ 250ºC (482ºF) | 3 hrs @ 100ºC (212ºF) 1.5 hrs @ 150ºC (302ºF) 1 hrs @ 200ºC (392ºF) 0.75 hrs @ 250ºC (482ºF) | NA |
| IP Rating | IP67 | ||
*Pressure 2 bar (29 psi)
Applications
Our thermal profiling systems help you optimize production while meeting Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) food safety regulations with ease. The Datapaq® Food Tracker Thermal Profiling System allows you to accurately gain full temperature traceability throughout the cook, chill, and freeze process. Check our list of applications below or contact us with your specific food application requirements.
- Poultry, Meat, and Seafood Processing
- Commercial Bread and Confectionery Baking
- Commercial Pasteurization and Sterilization
- Ready Meals
Special and Custom Solutions The experienced engineering team at Fluke Process Instruments has produced numerous thermal barriers for applications, ranging from temperatures of -40°C to 1350°C (-40°F to 2462°F). They can design a complete solution for your specific requirements. Contact us to request information about a custom Datapaq thermal profiling solution. |
The Food Tracker Radio Telemetry System
The Food Tracker Radio Telemetry System allows you to see in real-time what happens to your product during the heat treatment process. You can compare actual product temperatures to specifications during the process and optimize cycle times. |
Thermocouples (Type T or K) are supplied with water-tight connectors to provide the IP67 rating of the logger. Reliability and accuracy are guaranteed in the most hostile of environments, including steam, water, and condensation. Thermocouples can be mixed, matched, and interchanged according to the type of process and product. Thermocouple cable lengths can also be customized to match the exact requirements of the process.
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Thermocouple Options for MultiPaq21 Data Logger
MI Needle Probe Used in ambient or product temperature where temperatures exceed 265ºC (509ºF).
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Standard Needle PTFE cable with insertion probe. Needle length 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.6 mm (.06 in) in diameter. Used to measure internal product temperatures for medium to large products.
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Heavy Duty Probe PTFE cable with insertion probe. Needle length 125 mm (5 in), 3.2 mm (.12 in) in diameter, with location barb to prevent probe movement and includes a handle to aid with insertion. Used to measure internal product temperatures for large-sized products, typically meat products where probe insertion may be difficult.
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Air Clip Probe PTFE cable with an air temperature sensor mounted on a clip attachment. Used for environmental monitoring of an oven fitted to a product rack or tray used to transport the product.
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Food Core Probe PTFE cable with exposed temperature sensor. Used for environmental monitoring or insertion into products in a semi-solid / liquid state prior to cooking, e.g. bakery.
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Food Can Probe PTFE cable with a long round-ended needle. Needle length 200 mm (8 in), 1.6 mm (.06 in) in diameter. Used in combination with a can adaptor (PA0620) to measure the internal product temperature of a sealed can/bottle in pasteurization or sterilization processes.
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Probe Accessories
The Food Tray and Jig accessories can be used without stopping the conveyor line or disturbing production and guarantee repeatability of the profile in conveyorized processes. For detailed information, download the Food Tray and Jig brochure available under the Resource tab.
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PA 2020 The Humidity Sensor HC2 measures humidity, as well as temperature in processes up to 200°C (400°F). This sensor is ideal for baking applications where humidity measurements can be used to help validate oven control, optimize yields, and improve quality.
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| PA2014 Probe ID tags (bag of 8) Threaded onto the cable to allow easy channel identification during product probing. |
