Maxwell Technologies Collaborating with Argonne on Hybrid Energy Storage Systems

Energy Resource,  May 15, 2007  

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Maxwell Technologies Inc. will be supplying ultracapacitor cells and integration kits to the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory as part of a collaborative research project to assemble and evaluate an integrated ultracapacitor/lithium-ion battery energy storage system for hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Argonne, the nation's first national laboratory, will provide batteries and power electronics, design and fabricate the integrated energy system for installation in the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) of the Advanced Powertrain Research Facility (APRF) in Argonne's Center for Transportation Research.

APRF's primary focus is technology validation and benchmarking testing for advanced vehicles and their supporting subsystems.

Argonne and Maxwell have agreed on an active parallel system configuration that will combine a standard lithium-ion plug-in hybrid battery with a string of 112 of Maxwell's BOOSTCAP BCAP0650 P270 650-farad ultracapacitor cells, along with appropriate power electronics and cooling and safety-related features. The system will undergo HIL validation during the summer of 2007.

"This is a tremendous opportunity for Maxwell to collaborate with a world-renowned transportation research organization in demonstrating how ultracapacitors complement hybrid vehicle batteries," said Dr. Richard Balanson, Maxwell's president and chief executive officer. "We believe that this project will further validate the efficiency, low temperature performance, battery life and other advantages of combining ultracapacitor and lithium-ion technology."

Argonne National Laboratory conducts basic and applied scientific research across a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from high-energy physics to climatology and biotechnology. It has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies and other organizations and is managed by UChicago Argonne LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.

For more information, visit www.maxwell.com.

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