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Saturday, 15 May 2010
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ULTRACAPACITOR GLOBAL MARKET
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In a world of increasing need for energy efficiency coupled with environmental concerns, there is a tremendous opportunity for an energy storage device that can be used at times as a complement to traditional batteries and other energy storage devices, and other times as a standalone system. |
Ultracapacitors unique performance characteristics place them between standard capacitors and batteries, fulfilling a need that will vault these devices from a $208 million market in 2008 to a $877 million market by 2014, a CAGR of 27% (according to LuxResearch market analysis).
Nowadays, ultracapacitors designed by YUNASKO company significantly exceed their competitors by power density. From the commercial point of view this can results in less size/mass of an ultracapacitor module (at least by a factor of two) capable of meeting the customer requirements. No doubt, the less size and mass leads to lower cost of the module and it is critical in many applications ranged from automotive to consumer electronics.
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Saturday, 15 May 2010
Written by Alexander Shnaydruk
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CALL FOR COLLABORATION
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We are looking for reliable partners in major consumption markets for our products in North America, Europe, and Asia. A limited amount of ultracapacitor cells and modules can be provided mainly for the new product development and testing purposes.
Manufacturing partners: Yunasko is looking for strong partnerships to build the mass scale production in the different parts of the world. Such project requires serious partners with the experience in batteries and electronic components production.
Product development partners: Our ultracapacitors with unique performance allow us to resolve many technical issues which seemed to be hard or even impossible to resolve before. That is why it is important to find new opportunities for the product applications together with those who are working on different engineering solutions.
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Technology Licensing
YUNASKO is focused towards improvement of technology, research for original technical solutions and exploration of new areas where ultracapacitors can be used. We look for reliable partners in the largest consumer markets of our technology – North America, Europe and Asia. While large industrial scale implementation of our technology is important for us, we are ready to offer licensing agreements to those companies, which are interested in mass production of ultracapacitor cells, modules and ultracapacitor-based solutions.
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Joint Development
We are open to cooperate with companies engaged in development of new solutions, which help to uncover competing advantages of ultracapacitors and our unique technology. Such cooperation complies with our strategy to promote more efficient energy storage solutions on the market. It is also important that partners possess the experience in launching new products in power electronics and have the resources to invest in new technologies.
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Electrode Sales
YUNASKO is looking to find customers for ultracapacitor key components – special modified foils and electrode rolls. Potential customers for these products are industrial, capacitor or battery companies. These customers should be interested to extend the range of their product-lines. Electrode material is a critical component that will enable company a quick entry to the ultracapacitor market.
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Products Offering
YUNASKO is ready to develop ultracapacitor cells and modules by special request from the customer, taking into account different preferences and desired characteristics. Main consumers for such products are the companies that desire to get the most advantageous of ultracapacitor-based solutions now, while the widespread commercialization is still on the way.
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Technology Development
There are several important directions in the technological development of our company in 2012-2015:
 Development of special methods and layouts for combining ultracapacitors with batteries in different applications
Finding new ways for treatment and tuning of carbon powders with the goals of decreasing the ultracapacitor cost and improving performance
Search for new electrolytes to increase the working voltage range and maximum capacitance
Research and development for hybrid devices that include lithium-ion and ultracapacitor materials, with the main purpose of significant energy density increase
Software Partner
Since 2014 Yunasko is participating in Autodesk Entrepreneur Impact Program, which is directed to help early-stage startups and entrepreneurs in the social, cleantech, and environmental sectors, providing them with world-class digital prototyping software to design, visualize, and simulate their ideas and get to market faster.
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Saturday, 15 May 2010
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INVESTORS
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In late 2009, Yunasko has received financing from Dekarta Capital private equity fund that resulted in launch of a pilot production and advance towards a start of product sales.
For futher development YUNASKO is looking for investment opportunities in the form of loans and/or direct equity investments. The amount of investment depends on the development strategy.
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Investment objectives:
 Expansion and improvement of production lines
Certification of our products and laboratory facility
Commercial and marketing costs of product promotion
Research and development of new technical solutions
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Saturday, 15 May 2010
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ULTRACAPACITOR Q&A
This section of the site should help to give answers on many general questions from the potential partners aiming to contact Yunasko company to establish partnership.
What is the difference between ultracapacitor and supercapacitor?
Usually the terms “supercapacitor” or “ultracapacitor” refer to Electric Double Layer Capacitors, or EDLC. EDLCs store charge from ions in an electrolyte with high surface area electrodes typically made from activated carbon. EDLCs have capacitance values that are typically orders of magnitude higher than traditional capacitors (i.e. several or hundreds Farads vs microFarads). This large increase in capacitance is where the terms “super-” and “ultra-” come from.
What does the acronym EDLC stand for?
EDLC - Electric Double Layer Capacitor - is a next-generation energy storage device that is as an auxiliary power supply. EDLCs have very high capacitance (up to 5000 Farads) values but rather low voltage ratings (2.5-3 V). As the energy stored is inversely proportional to the thickness of the dielectric, EDLCs have an extremely high energy density comparing to capacitors. The electrodes are made of activated carbon, which has a high surface area per unit volume, further increasing the capacitor's energy density.
I need the battery to provide me 4 kW in 15 minutes. Can you design ultracapacitors solution based on this technical specification?
The ultracapacitor is mainly a power device and it perfectly fits the applications where the main charge/discharge power pulse is in the range of 0.1 – 30 seconds. The limited energy density does not allow to build an effective ultracapacitor power supply solution in the ranges of pulses more than 1 minute. Conventional batteries, NiMH or Li-Ion are the better fit in energy storate. But in some cases, where high durability, wider temperature range or heavy duty cycling is required, the ultracapacitor power supply solution can be efficient, taking also into consideration the cost constraint.
Also, it is always important for us to know the system voltage requirement, as we need to connect in series several 2.7 V cells in order to increase the voltage. The voltage for ultracapacitor module can range from 5-15 V up to 500-700 V, depending on application.
Can you supply us with ultracapacitors and what is the price?
Since our company is in the technology development stage, we can supply only the limited amount of cells mainly for solution prototyping purposes on case by case factor. The ultracapacitor module can also be built with the custom requirements. Please send us your technical requirements describing your product application and quantities needed.
What type of ultracapacitors do you develop?
Yunasko is mainly developing ultracapacitors in the range 300 – 2000 Farads. More information can be found on Products page
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