Modula-S SustainmentBox: PopUp Power Platform

The SustainmentBox is a hybrid power, water, and heat generator designed to combat the “tyranny of distance” inherent in US global warfighting. Expeditionary base facilities use up to 66% of the electricity generated by diesel fuel, which must be transported vast distances by air and water. Reducing the energy demands of buildings, and therefore the need for liquid fuel to meet these demands, will have many positive ripple effects throughout Army supply chains, and reduce the great strain and dangerous risks of fuel transportation.The SustainmentBox building blocks are TRICONs (modular containers) which house Cummins generators, Lithium-Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries for back-up power storage, Sodium batteries for peak load shaving and rapid energy discharge, heat pumps, a clean water filtration system (WOW/DRIPS), and a hot water storage "thermal battery.”Inputs are fuel (diesel and/or JP8), air, and any type of water, clean or contaminated. Solar power and existing AMMPS generators can also be linked to the system. Outputs are 3 phase AC electricity (208/120-volt AC), 48Vdc (with other DC voltages available), clean potable water, hot water, chlorine, cool and hot air, and rapid-discharge, capacitor-like tactical power.While traditional Army deployments use 60kw Generators to power up to 3 shelters, the SustainmentBox system can power 6-9 shelters off the same generator capacity by storing energy in LFP batteries, shaving peak loads using rapid-discharge Sodium batteries, recovering waste heat from generators to warm up water, and storing hot water in a super-insulated “thermal battery” storage tank. The SustainmentBox provides clean potable water from the WOW/DRIPS filtration system, and a reliable supply of hot water as part of its core outputs. In the field, you need two things to survive and thrive, electricity and clean water. The SustainmentBox provides both and more.Overall, Modula-S will integrate cutting-edge COTS technologies in reliable and resilient modular systems that can meet military and commercial needs in austere environments. Our ultra efficient systems minimize energy needs, and therefore relieve supply chain pressures, to facilitate smooth and reliable operation in any region. Soldiers need two things to survive and effect mission assurance: electrical power and clean water. Based on adopted Army policies, equipment needs to function from -60°F to 127°F, in the arctic, jungle and desert. The SustainmentBox not only provides the two necessities of clean water and power, we also provide them far more efficiently, using a systems integration design where all of the parts are complementary, both individually efficient and efficient as an integrated system. The best way to reduce supply chain risk is to reduce the quantity of liquid fuel needed, which reduces the tyranny of distance and the unacceptable risk of long fuel supply chains in the Pacific. The SustainmentBox supports more troops on less fuel.