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The bipolar battery Winner —2022 — Advanced Battery Concepts
Advanced Battery Concepts matched the strength of the bipolar battery it has developed with the need for emergency energy storage for households.
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dvanced Battery Concepts has pioneered the development of a bipolar battery — commercialization of which had not been achieved since the bipolar battery was invented in the 1930s. Now, complete with a new
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filling technology, the firm has found a good use for its storage system for emergency back up in the home. The ABC Home Emergency Energy Storage system relies on a foundation of critical technology built into the
GreenSeal bipolar battery bank which holds the 18kWh of energy available to be delivered at up to 6.8kW continuous power for home energy supply in the absence of stable continuous grid power. “Patent pending technology provides for easy integration of additional storage enclosures yielding up to 36kWh of total energy available. Licensees of GreenSeal technology now have access to a commercialized set of technologies that are demonstrating their reliability and performance in the high value emergency power market,” says the firm. “Of note, is the newest ABC proprietary technology known as “RapidFill” and “RapidForm”. This is the first VRLA battery filling and formation process executed with acid flowing continuously through all cells in the battery from the start of formation to the end of it,” says the firm. RapidFill results in a complete fill and saturation of all cells in the bipolar stack, regardless of the operating voltage of the monoblock, simultaneously and in under 60 seconds. Multiple 48V batteries are filled and ready for formation in less than one minute. From there, formation can start immediately on the entire group of batteries at the same time, as acid begins flowing throughout each of the battery cells for the entire duration of formation. Flowing acid allows for constant specific gravity acid during the entirety of the formation process as well as maintaining constant precise temperature of the battery during the formation execution regardless of the ambient temperature. All this is done without the use of water baths or other forms of active cooling of the battery “This is a true innovation for the lead battery industry moving continually away from flooded batteries requiring maintenance and toward
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