DUBLIN, July 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qlqtqt/supercapacitor_) has announced the addition of the "Supercapacitor / Ultracapacitor Strategies and Emerging Applications 2013-2025" report to their offering.
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Traditionally, rechargeable batteries have been used as energy dense products and the other devices based on capacitors have been used as power dense products. There are more-power-dense versions of the favourite rechargeable batteries - lithium-ion with 70% or so of the rechargeable battery market in 2023. Unfortunately, power dense rechargeable batteries surrender a lot of energy density. It is therefore helpful that more and more energy dense supercapacitors and variants are becoming available, some even matching lead acid batteries and yet retaining excellent power density. This convergence of properties has led to the widespread combination of the two in parallel, particularly in power applications. Battery/supercapacitor combinations approach the performance of an ideal battery - something that can never be achieved with a battery alone because its chemical reactions cause movement, swelling and eventually irreversibility. In some cases, things have gone further. For example, hybrid buses using supercapacitors now rarely use them across the traction battery - the supercapacitor replaces the battery, the only battery remaining in the vehicle being a small lead-acid starter battery.
Many more supercapacitor variants are now available. There is now almost a continuum of devices between conventional electrolytic capacitors and rechargeable batteries as we explain in the report. The analysis of 80 manufacturers and putative manufacturers reveals, for example, how battery manufacturers and conventional capacitor manufacturers are entering the business of devices intermediate between the two. However, rather surprisingly, most of the intermediate devices are developed and manufactured by companies not in either conventional capacitors or batteries. Although we use the term intermediate devices, some have some properties superior to both conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries.
Key Topics Covered:
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Supercapacitors and batteries converge
1.2. Success by application and territory
1.3. Most are chasing area improvement
1.4. Even lower temperature
1.5. Price and functional issues
1.6. Supercapacitors in vehicles
1.7. Incidence of the different technologies
1.8. Achieving the impossible
1.9. Manufacturers and putative manufacturers
1.10. New entrants
1.11. Supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries are now one business
1.12. Change of leadership of the global value market?
2. INTRODUCTION
3. ADVANCES REQUIRED AND PROGRESS IDENTIFIED
3.1. Supercapacitors in vehicles
3.2. Ensuring that supercapacitors will replace more batteries
4. APPLICATIONS NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
4.1. Pulse Power
4.2. Bridge Power
4.3. Main Power
4.4. Memory Backup
4.5. Manufacturer successes and strategies by application
5. SURVEY OF 80 MANUFACTURERS
6. ACHIEVEMENTS AND OBJECTIVES BY MANUFACTURER
7. EXAMPLES OF NON-COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
8. ELECTROLYTES BY MANUFACTURER
9. INTERVIEWS AND COMMENTARY ON COMPANY STRATEGY FOR SUPERCAPACITORS
9.1. Interviews with suppliers
9.1.1. Cap-XX Australia
9.1.2. Cellergy Israel
9.1.3. East Penn Manufacturing USA
9.1.4. Elton Super Capacitor Russian Federation
9.1.5. Inmatech USA
9.1.6. Ioxus USA
9.1.7. JR Micro Japan
9.1.8. Maxwell Technologies USA
9.1.9. Nanotune Technologies USA
9.1.10. Nesscap Energy Inc Canada/Korea
9.1.11. Nichicon Japan
9.1.12. Nippon ChemiCon/ United ChemiCon Japan
9.1.13. Yo-Engineering Russian Federation
9.1.14. Yunasko Russian Federation
9.2. User interviews and inputs
9.2.1. Bombardier Canada
9.2.2. Hydrogenics Corporation USA
9.2.3. Honda Japan
10. DEVELOPER, MATERIALS SUPPLIER AND ACADEMIC INPUTS
10.1. Daikin Industries Japan
10.2. Hutchinson (TOTAL) France
10.3. IFEVS Italy
10.4. Northeastern University USA
10.5. NYSERDA grants reveal trends of research
10.6. Tecate Group USA
10.7. Yuri Gogotski
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