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EPRI Proprietary Licensed Material<br />

ECOND<br />

The ECOND capacit<strong>or</strong> made in Moscow, Russia, has bipolar construction with KOH<br />

electrolyte. It is a cylinder approximately nine inches in diameter, and, depending on<br />

energy, a height from several inches up to m<strong>or</strong>e that two feet. Capacit<strong>or</strong> energies range<br />

up to 45 kJ in size. Equivalent series resistances are typically in the milliohm range.<br />

Voltages up to 200 V are <strong>com</strong>mon. Their RC time constant is below one second,<br />

considerably less than many <strong>com</strong>petitive products. This capacit<strong>or</strong> technology has not<br />

changed significantly from when it was first described in the US in 1993.<br />

ECOND products have been used in many demonstration systems including diesel truck<br />

starting and in hybrid electric vehicles. ECOND capacit<strong>or</strong>s were used in the first largescale<br />

hybrid bus demonstration in N<strong>or</strong>th America that had capacit<strong>or</strong> energy st<strong>or</strong>age. This<br />

40-ft-long city transit bus was a gas/electric hybrid system that contained a 1.5 MJ, 400 V<br />

capacit<strong>or</strong> system. ECOND capacit<strong>or</strong>s are available from their N<strong>or</strong>th American<br />

distribut<strong>or</strong>, Tavrima Canada, Inc.<br />

Figure 4 ECOND capacit<strong>or</strong> 60F, 16V (six inch ruler also shown)<br />

ELIT<br />

The ELIT Company started operation in 1990 in Kursk, Russia. Their early devices were<br />

designed to power wheel chairs and subsequently <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> children’s toy cars. ELIT has<br />

concentrated on carbon-carbon electrochemical capacit<strong>or</strong>s, which led to the development<br />

<strong>of</strong> a broad line <strong>of</strong> type I products having significant sales volume in the US. Capacit<strong>or</strong>s<br />

with voltages as high as 400 V are now available.<br />

A reader’s letter to Battery International from Alexey Beliakov in early 1993 c<strong>or</strong>rected<br />

in<strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mation in an earlier issue by pointing out the existence <strong>of</strong> their large electrochemical<br />

capacit<strong>or</strong>s. Pictures <strong>of</strong> 30 and 50 kJ, 12 and 24 V capacit<strong>or</strong>s were shown. He described<br />

the testing they had done on such capacit<strong>or</strong>s and mentioned delivery <strong>of</strong> 600 kJ capacit<strong>or</strong><br />

systems. Capacit<strong>or</strong>s <strong>of</strong> such size and sophistication were totally unheard <strong>of</strong> at that time in<br />

the US. The <strong>com</strong>plete line <strong>of</strong> ELIT capacit<strong>or</strong> products is available from their fact<strong>or</strong>y in<br />

Kursk, Russia.<br />

Electrochemical Capacit<strong>or</strong>s 26

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