Power Supply Protection

As the stability of local and regional grids comes under increasing pressure, the impact of weak power supplies is hitting some businesses hard. Issues are often caused by short power outages or blackouts – particularly in smaller grid sectors or under island conditions.

In many industrial scenarios, these power fluctuations can halt processes and production. This can have significant effects, including:

• capital loss, the loss of materials that might be rendered unusable when power supplies drop during a process, or;
• production loss (sometimes referred to as “dead weight loss”), which is the output lost because processes are interrupted or delayed.

DuraStor is a smart power storage solution that can help overcome these power supply weaknesses, avoiding capital and production losses. Our modular power storage solution protects against unacceptable short-time voltage fails, and bridges the power supply to safely shut down your critical processes, or even to switch on additional power generators in standby.

Find out more about our DuraStor system, and how it can be customised and implemented for any business.

Mission-critical industrial situations are often invariably protected by conventional uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). Such installations typically combine a battery backup device with an engine driven alternator. This conventional setup has two main drawbacks:

1. The required battery power often results in wasted amounts of energy storage (e.g. more battery cells than required are installed, to overcome the delay of the local engine starting).
2. The engine-driven alternator exclusively generates electrical power. The sector-coupled use of the also available thermal power (e.g. combustion heat) is not considered and, as a result, wasted.

Stornetic’s technology offers a different solution, supplying a power storage solution that protects processes or critical resources against short term outage through hybridisation, such as with modern combined heat and power (CHP) plants.

With this set-up, the back-up power solution is complemented by the continuous local production of electrical and thermal power to supply your local demands. This significantly increases the overall economical efficiency, sustainably reducing the CO2 footprint of a business’ energy portfolio.