Nesscap Introduces New Ultracap Modules for Automotive and Industrial Markets
04 October 2010
South Korea-based Nesscap Co., Ltd. recently introduced five new ultracapacitor modules for the industrial and automotive markets.
- The 16-volt 108-Farad module is especially designed for space constrained automotive and industrial applications and is fully integrated and incorporates proprietary balancing, monitoring and thermal management capabilities.
- Two 64-volt modules with 83 Farads and 125 Farads respectively are positioned to respond to the growing industrial energy augmentation opportunity within the smart grid infrastructure as well as the maturing windmill pitch control system for their energy storage.
- Two 86-volt modules with 62 Farads and 93 Farads respectively were developed to meet the continuing requirements for more power in both the automotive and industrial markets.
Earlier, Nesscap had introduced a 125-volt module and a family of 16-volt modules. The 125-volt module is compact, fully integrated, and incorporates proprietary balancing, monitoring and thermal management capabilities.
This module provides an easy-to-integrate building block for ultracapacitor-based braking energy recuperation and torque assist systems for electric rail vehicles and hybrid bus and truck drive trains.
The five 16-volt modules are lightweight, fully integrated and aluminum encased and range in capacitance from 108 Farads to 500 Farads. These modules provide ease of use integration for power hungry automotive, industrial and telecom applications providing versatile building blocks for complete systems with higher voltage requirements.
In transportation applications, ultracaps can efficiently recapture energy from braking for reuse in hybrid drive trains, reducing fuel consumption and emissions. In mission critical industrial applications, where backup power is critical for continued operation or a soft shutdown in the event of power interruptions, they provide a simple, solid state, highly reliable, solution to buffer short-term mismatches between the power available and the power required. In wind turbine blade pitch and braking systems and other industrial applications, they provide reliable, cost-effective, maintenance-free energy storage.
Interesting to have another major supplier to promote ultracaps use.
Battery-UltraCaps combo could improve HEV/PHEV/BEV acceleration, braking energy capture and extend batteries life. Which electrified vehicle manufacturer will use them first?
Posted by: HarveyD | 04 October 2010 at 08:43 AM
Cost would be the issue. We may see more performance EVs that command a high price and profit margin use these in cars.
Posted by: SJC | 04 October 2010 at 01:57 PM
108 F @ 16 V would store over 2 kWh over a voltage range of 8-16 volts. That's more than the Prius battery. 2 kWh will accelerate 20 tons from 0 to 60 MPH or raise 2 tons to a height of over 1100 feet.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | 06 October 2010 at 03:19 PM