Ensuring uninterrupted power is critical for modern infrastructure, especially in demanding environments like data centers. Power sags, surges, and outages, even momentary ones, can lead to significant data loss and operational disruption. While traditional batteries, particularly lithium-ion, have been the go-to solution for backup power, they come with limitations related to lifespan, operating temperature, maintenance, and environmental impact.
Addressing these challenges head-on, Skeleton Technologies has developed a groundbreaking solution: the Graphene Supercapacitor Power Shelf. This innovative product leverages the exceptional properties of graphene supercapacitors to provide robust and reliable short-term power backup and enhance power quality.
Unlike batteries that store energy through chemical reactions, supercapacitors store energy electrostatically. This fundamental difference gives them distinct advantages, particularly in applications requiring frequent, rapid charging and discharging cycles. The Graphene Supercapacitor Power Shelf utilizes Skeleton’s proprietary curved graphene material, which significantly boosts the performance of the supercapacitors.
The benefits of integrating this technology into critical power systems are substantial. The Graphene Supercapacitor Power Shelf boasts an extraordinarily long lifespan, capable of enduring millions of charge-discharge cycles. This is vastly superior to the thousands of cycles typically offered by lithium-ion batteries, leading to drastically reduced replacement frequency and associated costs over the system’s operational life.
Furthermore, graphene supercapacitors operate efficiently across a much wider temperature range than most batteries. This allows the Power Shelf to perform reliably in varied conditions, potentially reducing the need for extensive cooling infrastructure, which can lower operational expenses (OPEX) in facilities like data centers.
The rapid charging speed and discharge capability of supercapacitors make them ideal for bridging short power gaps and smoothing out voltage fluctuations, ensuring consistent and high-quality power delivery to sensitive equipment. Their high power density means they can deliver large bursts of power quickly.
By offering a highly reliable, long-lasting, and environmentally more sustainable alternative or complement to batteries for backup and power quality applications, the Graphene Supercapacitor Power Shelf represents a significant step forward. It provides operators of data centers and other critical power sites with a solution that enhances reliability, reduces long-term costs (CAPEX and OPEX), and simplifies maintenance, setting a new standard for power assurance.
Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/skeleton-technologies-launches-graphene-based-supercapacitor-power-shelf/
