Author: Josh Johnson
Required or Recommended: Understanding Battery Maintenance Standards for Critical System Protection
Wally Vahlstrom, Director Technical Services
Emerson Network Power, Electrical Reliability Services
Batteries are critical components in any uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Whether we consider an industrial facility, a data center, or the critical power supply to relays and control components of utility systems, the performance of batteries is instrumental to ensuring system availability. Without proper attention and care for batteries, critical infrastructure is put at risk as battery failure is the number one cause of UPS problems. To protect against battery failure and expensive downtime, preventive battery maintenance is key. Read more about Required or Recommended: Understanding Battery Maintenance Standards for Critical System Protection …
Wireless Power: Getting Down to Business
Upal Sengupta, Staff Applications Engineer
Texas Instruments
About a year ago, I wrote a post about resonance and how it relates to the wireless power systems we’ve been developing at TI to enable convenient charging of mobile devices. Since that time, the industry has made a lot of progress in bringing wireless power solutions to the next level. While many people may still consider wireless power an “exotic” or niche technology, there are already tens of millions of portable devices with wireless charging capability in the hands of end users. Read more about Wireless Power: Getting Down to Business …
Next-Generation Batteries: Problems and Solutions
Sam Jaffe
Navigant Research
It’s clear that today we live in a lithium ion world. That’s the chemistry that powers our phones, our computers, our power tools, our electric vehicles, and our grid energy storage systems. The only thing that it doesn’t do, yet, is start our cars (that’s still the domain of much cheaper lead-acid batteries). Navigant Research expects that the age of lithium ion (Li-ion) will continue for at least the next 10 years. Read more about Next-Generation Batteries: Problems and Solutions …
