Super-capacitor Energy Storage System for Compact High Power Applications

"Ocellus Technologies has developed an integrated approach for the application of double-layer capacitors. Starting with the application's power and energy specifications and using its novel conformal electrode design, Ocellus will develop a completeintegrated energy storage systems optimized for the given sonar application's weight and volume constraints. Integration issues such as power conversion and system protection are addressed during the packaging and capacitor design process.Ocellus Technologies uses nano-scale carbon foams that have a continuous porosity and a very high surface area per volume making them ideal for double-layer capacitor designs. These nano-scale foams can be extruded, formed and shaped to produce conformalelectrode designs to meet a variety of volume and environmental constraints. They are manufactured using processes that achieve greater efficiency, lower cost and additional utility.Under this Phase I proposal a conformal electrode design optimized for an organic electrolyte will be constructed and tested. The electrode will be designed to scale into a prototype energy storage system for a 50kW, 10 second pulse Low Frequency AcousticSource application. The project will address integration issues related to double-layer capacitor applications specifically looking at mechanical packaging designs, power conversion options, and voltage balancing of cell stacks. There are several needs for short-duration,