UPS manufacturer Active Power now offers up to 30 minutes of extended runtime on its CleanSource HD UPS.
The extended runtime cabinet is fitted with VRLA batteries and has a nominal battery voltage of 480 Vdc.
The cabinet is designed to run alongside Active Power’s CleanSource HD UPS, a flywheel UPS system with a voltage output of 480 VAC.
Power management company Eaton has launched a new prefabricated power solution for data centres in the U.S.
The prefabricated solution will feature the company’s UPS system Power Xpert 9395, which has a standard voltage of 480V and a power rating of 225-1100 kVA.
Eaton will offer its prefabricated solution in three different designs; connected, centralised and contained. The connected configuration comes in central or distributed bypass options and can handle up to four UPS modules per system.
Fuel Cell company Altergy has announced the launch of its new fuel cell, the Freedom Power Nacelle.
Powered by gaseous hydrogen the new cell comes in three different increments, 1kW weighing 240 lbs , 2.5 kW at 280 lbs and 5 kW, clocking in at 480 lbs.
The new cell is claimed to decrease footprint and volume each by 47%, as well as system weight by 48%. It is also claimed to be 26% cheaper than other fuel cells.
The cell is certified by the California Air Resources Board as a zero emission electrical power generator.
An analysis by Frost & Sullivan reveals that the genset market in East Africa is set to increase nearly 50 per cent by 2018.
According to the market researchers the current demand of electricity in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania far outstrips supply, and with the continuing economic and population growth the demand will only increase.
In 2014 the genset markets earned revenue in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania clocked in at $134.7 million, $44.5 million and $145.1 million. Frost & Sullivan estimates that by 2018 the numbers will have increased to $168.5 million, $65.4 million and $220.1 million.
Factors contributing to this are Tanzania’s new institutional reform in a bid to attract direct foreign investment, and severe drought in Kenya, which has forced the state-owned power utility company Kenya Power and Lighting Company (with a 97% share of the rental market) to rely on gensets rather than hydro-powered plants.
However, there is also a number of factors that could have a negative impact on the development; one is a preference of gas from the recently discovered gas fields in the region. Another is an increasing distribution of cheap low-quality gensets that has damaged the reputation of providers.
French battery manufacturer Saft Groupe has been awarded a contract by American Crim Sales & Engineering to deliver lithium-ion batteries to the company’s UPS modules.
Under the contract, Saft has already delivered nearly 30 units of its Intensium Flex battery system to a major Southeast utility.
Saft’s Intensium Flex battery system will provide a nominal voltage of 125 vdc backup power for a mix of Ac and DC loads. The total nominal power rating of the system is 7.5 kW in two-hour modular backup increment and has an energy content of 15 kWh.
The system is fitted with two parallel strings, each consisting of five modules in series with a battery management module. A master battery management module regulates the battery as a whole. The battery is also equipped with a Crim switch mode power conversion system.
Crim is the first US Standby company to use Saft’s Intensium Flex technology in its AC/DC UPS Power Supply
Socomec and JSR Micro N.V. have announced the launch of their collaborative project, a lithium-ion capacitor based UPS system.
The system is built from Socomec’s UPS equipment and JSR Mirco subsidiary JM Energy’s Ultimo Lithium-ion capacitors, and is designed to provide short-term backup power to critical support equipment. Using cell-to-cell monitoring makes it a fully integrated system that enhances the power availability for the load.
JM Energy’s Ultimo capacitors come as both laminate and prismatic single cells and modules. Each single cell has a maximum rated voltage of 3.8V.
The first system has already been put to use, protecting critical equipment at JSR Micro’s facility.
Spanish genset manufacturer Himoinsa showed off its new diesel/battery hybrid units at both Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Middle East Electricity in Dubai this month.
The HPS 1500DCV and HPS 3000DCV gensets run with Yanmar variable speed engines designed to operate between 1,200 rpm and 3,000 rpm.
The hybrid genset comes with lead acid or lithium batteries, and has an output of 48 VDC and 230 VAC.
UPS Manufacturer Active Power has taken on Peter Gross as a member of its board of directors.
As the seventh member of Active Power’s board of directors, Gross brings with him 30 years of experience within engineering and design from the data centre and telecom industries.
Gross currently serves as VP for Mission Critical Systems at fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy.
The American manufacturer of electrical distribution and on-site power generation equipment, Pioneer Power Solutions has acquired Harmonics Holdings, patent holder of a technology eliminating harmonic currents in power distribution systems.
Pioneer's Chairman and CEO Nathan Mazurek said in a statement: “We expect it to be the first of several initiatives we undertake to offer a more comprehensive array of power quality solutions to our customers – including harmonic filtering and power factor correction."
Mazurek also said the company plans to capitalise on Harmonics’ newest product, the GenMax. GenMax is a harmonic suppression system that resolves power reliability and generator capacity issues, something that frequently occurs when new generators are introduced to a system of existing ones at backup power plants, particularly if the generators differ in make, model and power output.
This purchase follows Pioneer’s acquisition of UPS provider Titan Energy towards the end of last year.
Toshiba recently launched its new uninterruptible power system, the 4400 Series UPS, which will be available in power ranges from 15 to 80kVA.
Up to 30kVA the model is available in 5kVA increments.
The UPS system uses double-conversion, all insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBT) technology and features an IGBT input rectifier that allows a 0.99 input power factor and wide a voltage and frequency input window.
The 4400 series also features and IGBT pulse-width modulation output, and and IGBT DC to DC converter. The UPS has a standard voltage output of 208/120V.
The system can be monitored remotely with Toshiba’s own RemoteEye 4 multi-protocol UPS monitor.
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