Cranes and industrial elevators
Elevation systems as cranes and industrial elevators have been designed to lift and lower big loads at medium-high speed. This process, also quite repetitive, creates a very high peak power for a low average power requirement. Also, the type of movement and the absence of counterweight makes these machines simple in terms of consumption/generation.
epic power solutions plug to the DC link of industrial AC hoisting drives to improve the energy, power, and the CO2 emissions efficiency of such machines. Years of work in the elevation sector taught us the way of implementing peak shaving and energy reduction features in a simple and automatic way.
Plug and play solution to save energy/fuel
Via monitoring the DC link of a drive epic power converters can absorb the energy from the braking in batteries/supercapacitors and return it to the drive in the next consumption trip to reduce the overall energy/fuel consumption.
Intelligent management of energy
An intelligent management of energy allows to reducing peak power consumption while new state of the art control create a big reduction in power contract or diesel generator sizing as the starting dP/dt slope and peak power are highly reduced.
Case studies
A hybrid powered solution for cranes achieve reductions in fuel consumption, size of generator and braking resistor bank. Energy stored is used by a DC/DC converter to counterweight the power requirements and save the braking energy.
Electronic counterweight and peak shaving can be provided by a bidirectional DC/DC converter-based solution working with batteries and/or supercapacitors.
AGVs & shuttles (supercapacitor powered)
Bidirectional DC/DC converters applied to shuttles allow energy consumption from supercapacitors and charge from the grid with only one component. Electrified monorails become unnecessary in warehouses.
Logistics – AGVs (battery powered)
Reduction in size, cost and weight in battery powered industrial vehicles through DC/DC converters. DC motors are removed in favour of AC more standard and smaller solutions.
The use of less power from the grid or the reduction of the overall energy consumption can be achieved with battery and/or supercapacitor powered DC/DC converter-based solutions.
Combine a traditional fuel generator with a battery- powered system based on DC/DC to make a hybrid boat. Charge your batteries from the wind and move the boat freely without the need for it in the harbour.
Off-grid solar panel powered solution to feed hydrogen fuel cells through isolated DC/DC converters. Each converter provides MPPT per solar string to achieve highest efficiency.
Flexible solution for grid-connected hydrogen fuel cells through isolated DC/DC converters. High efficiency, robustness and easy parallelization for infinite combinations of power requirements.
