ELIT SUPERCAPACITORS for Power Quality Issues

The industrial progress is characterized by a great rate of energy consumption.
Nevertheless, even new technological processes are very sensitive to the quality of energy used.
Under increase of complicated electric system's sensitivity the vulnerability of fluctuation and short-termed switching off is hidden. As a result - the disruption during equipment operation, release of defective products and serious financial losses occur.
Nowadays to cope with these problems batteries for buffer power source are used.
Still they've got some disadvantages:
- depending on power load the time necessary to reach the required discharge power level is 0.1-0.5 sec;
- transient period from main to reserve power source - 0.1 sec;
- maintenance is necessary over all service life ;
- contain toxic harmful substances;
- difficult to utilize.

Power Quality Systems based on the usage of SUPERCAPACITORS let us improve and increase the efficiency of power supply systems.

The market of power quality issues is constantly developing. Still the effective demand of USA market for power quality issues is 377 000 000 $, and to 2010 year it is expected to increase in 4,5 times.
Such forecast is based on the advantages of Supercapacitors:
- the time of reaching the required level of discharge power does not depend on its value and is ~10-30 microsec;
- high level of discharge power is up to 5 MW;
- connection to consumers without any intermediate devices;
- capability of manufacturing single modules with the voltage up to 400V;
- window of operating temperature with no performances decrease is from -50°C to +50°C;
- the number of charge/discharge cycles is up to several millions;
- Supercapacitor is maintenance free during all service life;
- emits no harmful substances, contains no harmful components;
- utilization of used capacitors causes insignificant environmental damage.