http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2013-01-01&val=878559&cat=industrial Flux Power develops new technology to extend life of lithium battery systems Comtex News Network
Jan 01, 2013 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Flux Power Holdings, Inc., a developer of advanced energy storage systems, has developed a new technology that can learn and adapt to the changes that occur at the cell level within a battery pack over time. This patent-pending technology will enable Flux to provide its customers with advanced energy storage solutions that can adapt to a changing environment to increase usable energy and cycle life while decreasing charge times, the company said. Current battery management systems (BMS) utilize a system of voltage set-points to identify 'out of balance' groups of battery cells. With this information, operators are notified of an 'out of balance' condition or the system can choose to add power to or take power away from a certain group of cells. Flux Power's advanced technology provides a new management methodology that doesn't simply react to inconsistent voltage conditions, but intuitively manages each cell in an advanced energy storage system. The proprietary algorithms of the technology preemptively identify cell metrics to ensure accelerated balancing, charging and adapt the control of each cell in a battery system over time. Paulus Geantil, Flux Power's director of engineering and the inventor of this technology commented, "Less advanced energy solutions typically only monitor the charging and discharging of the batteries, by monitoring unit parameters such as voltage of the batteries, which is then recorded and analyzed by a microprocessor to determine the condition and state of each cell in the battery string. This means the system can only react to poor conditions instead of preemptively enhancing system performance. As a result, balancing can take much longer and cause delays in charge times or create systems that potentially never attain a full charge, thus sacrificing capacity. "The market and our customers consistently request more granularity of information on the storage demands of their specific applications to maximize the efficiency of their advanced storage system applications. Our new technology will deliver that functionality to them and sets our advanced energy storage systems well ahead of anyone else in the market today." The company said that the key benefit of this technology is its ability to recognize and adapt to the degradation of each cell in a battery pack through a comparative analysis of various perimeters, including the other cells within the battery pack and historical data regarding the cell. This technology can provide Flux's customer with real cell degradation data while being application agnostic. It will serve as a base for all of the company's advanced energy storage systems for solar, wind, back-up power, and EV (electric vehicle) applications. "This is a key addition to our core technology as it provides our customers with one of the most robust advanced energy storage solutions available on the market today. The amount of data and the ability to monitor the changes in capacity of each cell over the cycle life will be a key differentiator in our advanced battery management systems," said Chris Anthony, CEO of Flux Power. "We are working hard to incorporate this technology into all of our future product releases in order to provide our customers with the critical data they have been requesting." [© 2013 equities.com All Rights Reserved] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: e-Super Scooter gets the stink-eye from rumbling ice-motorcycles EVLN: PG&E Utility CH4 Gas Rates Down, Electric Rates Up EVLN: Mahindra Reva NXR EV Expected Q1 2013 EVLN: Rong wants to get it right + EVLN: $20k Tata eMO EV, It's watt makes cents r:160km ts:105kph {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Flux-technology-to-extend-life-of-lithium-battery-packs-tp4660385.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
