Los Angeles: VYCON, a designer and manufacturer of high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, announced the introduction August 8 of a new system that combines flywheel technology with batteries in one patent pending integrated system. The combination provides the speed of the flywheel system with extra runtime from the batteries.
Providing up to 300 kilowatts of power and claiming an efficiency of 99.4%, VYCON’s VDC XEB can significantly increase battery life by handling over 98 percent of the discharges that would normally have shortened the battery’s useful life.
According to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), 80 percent of all utility power disturbances last less than two seconds and 98 percent last less than 10 seconds. The system’s ability to offer extended runtime works with applications including those with automatic transfer switch time delays and/or synchronization time requirements for multiple generators. Additionally, for users of the VDC XEB requiring higher power, up to four VDC XEB systems can be paralleled for longer autonomy and/or redundancy. A contact-free magnetic levitation system avoids the need of bearing replacement every few years. VYCON claims its flywheel charges and discharges at very high rates for countless cycles without degradation throughout its 20-year life.