Technology delivers peak power and safety to industrial and medical applications

Powerbox has introduced its supercapacitor boost technology, S-CAP BOOST, providing backup and peak power solutions to industrial and medical applications. Based on the latest supercapacitor technology coupled with intelligent control and monitoring, the technology gives a solution to equipment manufacturers needing high energy peaks for short periods or emergency backup purposes in applications where, due to safety regulations, Lithium Ion or acid batteries are not permitted. Depending on the application, the technology can be configured to charge and monitor supercapacitor banks to work as UPS. This provides backup power to enable safety operations to take place prior to shutdown or delivering high peak power for a short period without interrupting the main source or discharging/damaging the system battery. The solution is ideal for applications including laser, electric motor booster or X-ray emission element. “The number of applications requiring emergency backup or high peak current is growing, and integrating supercapacitors within power supplies is becoming an extremely reliable and well-suited option to be considered by system architects,” said Patrick Le Fèvre, Powerbox’s chief marketing and communication officer. “Powerbox’s S-CAP BOOST is a great platform for the future, and we foresee an impressive number of applications for supercapacitor energy storage technology, and not only for electrical vehicles.” Compared to Lithium Ion which has a cyclability (number of recharges) of 500 to 1,000, supercapacitors can sustain from 500,000 to 20,000,000 cycles, making that technology extremely relevant for applications requiring large amounts of charge /discharge cycles with high energy such as industrial or medical lasers. This is what S-CAP BOOST technology has been developed for, very tight control of the supercapacitors’ charge to optimise the energy stored between each cycle, with very high levels of safety and reliability.