Pentadyne VSS Brochure

The battery-free solution for your UPS system
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Reliable UPS energy storage
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Typical continuous power quality solution

In a power outage, an automatic transfer switch (ATS) commands the back-up generator to start. During this time, the UPS ensures continuous power to the protected load via batteries or a flywheel. These energy storage devices power the protected loads until the utility line returns to normal or the back-up genset takes over. Back-up genset Utility feed ATS
Batteries and reliability

Power quality/reliability systems need energy storage to ensure protected loads always get clean power. But any UPS operator will tell you that batteries are the weakest link in the chain. They: Fail unpredictably Require frequent and costly maintenance Need total replacement every 2 - 4 years Require precise temperature control Need reinforced floor space,and lots of it Endanger personnel with hazmats
How it works
A carbon fiber cylinder linked to a shaft with a motor-generator is fully magnetically levitated, spinning in a vacuum. In an outage, the motorgenerator uses inertia to create the energy needed by the UPSs DC bus.
Upper vacuum chamber Lower vacuum chamber Carbon fiber composite flywheel cylinder
Axial electromagnet Upper radial electromagnet Patented molecular vacuum sleeve 2-inch thick steel housing Synchronous reluctance motor-generator
Theres a better way

The Pentadyne energy storage system is vastly more reliable and cost efficient while it eliminates lead-acid battery hazards, maintenance, environmental impact and that cross-your-fingers approach to power certainty. This carbon-fiber-flywheel technology connects with leading brands of UPS systems just like a battery cabinet but without the dangers, repetitive costs and poor reliability issues.
Motor-generator stator
Lower radial electromagnet
Makes batteries more reliable...

The Pentadyne clean energy system can operate in parallel with batteries as the first line of defense against power quality disturbances. During a power interruption, the UPS first draws current from the flywheel; the batteries are isolated. The flywheel delivers continuous power to ride through brief events (99% of all outages last <10 seconds, according to EPRI) or until the backup generator is online.
Bridging the gap

Flywheels cover the time gap between an outage and the UPS generator coming online; they also ensure continuous power during brief utility disturbances.
...Or eliminates batteries altogether

Unless there is a need for energy storage redundancy, most facilities use flywheels alone to achieve a real-world-proven 10x reliability improvement without all the hazmats,costs,and risks of battery banks.
without all the maintenance and costs of lead-acid batteries

Footprint comparison
The floorspace needed byVRLA battery cabinets for a 400-kVA UPS including code-mandated access space is nearly twice that of a similar capacity pair of flywheels (green). Compared to a one megawatt set of wet cells,the flywheel footprint is nearly 80% smaller (orange).
UPS
Protected load
VRLA
VRLA
FW FW access
access
FW FW FW FW FW access
access
Flywheel Optional batteries
access
wet cell batteries wet cell batteries access
access
VRLA
Batteries are the primary field failure problem with UPS systems Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
10-yr VRLA batteries Pentadyne GTX
Reliability Each cycle degrades reliability Unaffected by cycling
Flywheels cost more than VRLA batteries, but eliminate battery maintenance and string replacements, paying for themselves by shortly after what would be the first battery string replacement interval.
Key features and benefits

Real-world-proven: >10x the reliability of lead-acid batteries Vastly lower lifecycle costs than batteries and other flywheels An environmentally responsible solution to UPS energy storage the footprint of VRLAs, and the weight Runs near silently within a wide temperature range: no HVAC Less standby draw than batteries; 1/10th that of other flywheels No special flooring needs, rolls into place and installs in 1-2 hrs.
Unknown state of charge Recharge takes minutes/hours Narrow temperature range Frequent service & downtime Dropped loads:<30k hrs Costs Very lowfloatenergy needs Expensive HVAC needs Very frequent maintenance Large footprint Floor loading issues Replacement every 2-4 yrs Speculative monitoring option Acid spills, dangerous gases
About Pentadyne Power Corporation
Always known state of charge Symmetrical recharge (secs.) Broad temperature range Brief service every 2 yrs Dropped loads:>350k hrs Even lower float energy needs No HVAC needs Very infrequent maintenance Small footprint No floor loading issues >20-year design life Built-in real-time monitoring No hazmats,gases or fire risks
Pentadyne is one of the world's leading manufacturers of flywheel energy storage systems used for energy recycling applications and to replace hundreds of lead-acid batteries used with large-scale UPS systems. Award-winning flywheels made by this Inc. 500 listed company deliver an order of magnitude greater reliability than batteries, have near-zero maintenance needs, and have a footprint and lifecycle cost less than half that of batteries. Using 90% less power than other flywheels, this sustainable, environmentally responsible system is sold by several of the world's leading UPS manufacturers. A well-financed, ISO-9001-certified private company named aTechnology Pioneer by theWorld Economic Federation Pentadyne designs and manufactures its products in LosAngeles.
Gen Utility
Protected load
Optional
Soft start IGBT power convertor
Runtimes for UPS systems loaded at 50% and 80% (fractional seconds rounded down).
Lightly loaded systems can use fewer cabinets,then add more as load grows.
UPS rating* Runtimes 1000 kVA 750 kVA 625 kVA 500 kVA 400 kVA 300 kVA 250 kVA 225 kVA 200 kVA 150 kVA 120 kVA 100 kVA 80 kVA
Flywheel 50% load 80% load cabinets duration duration 23 sec. 12 sec. 4 3 23 sec. 12 sec. 3 28 sec. 16 sec. 23 sec. 12 sec. 2 29 sec. 17 sec. 2 39 sec. 24 sec. 2 23 sec. 12 sec. 1 26 sec. 15 sec. 1 29 sec. 17 sec. 1 39 sec. 24 sec. 1 48 sec. 31 sec. 1 59 sec. 37 sec. 1 75 sec. 46 sec. 1
Temperature Sensors
To UPS battery input
Flywheel module
DC monitoring
Motor-generator controls
Power conversion module controller (PCMC) Control panel
Magnetic levitation module (MLM)
Versatile Interface: Remote Monitoring, Diagnostics & Control
Disconnect switch User interface Versatile interface (opt.) Data collection module (opt.)
* Assumes a 540 Vdc bus, 0.9 pf and 95% inverter efficiency. Includes switchgear & cable losses; excludes rectifier walk-in.
Specs Continuous output power DC input/output voltage Recharging time DC ripple DC output voltage regulation Standby draw/heat dissipation Weight Dimensions D xW x H Operating sound level Operating temperature range Cabling access Service access
200 kW nom.,225 kW max. Adjustable:350 to 850* Vdc <15 sec. (DC source dependent) <2% 1% steady state 0.25 kW / 850 BTU/hr 1,300 pounds (590 kg) 33x25x71 in (83x63x180 cm) 45 dBA @ 1 meter -4F to 122F (-20C to 50C) Top or side Only front access required
Motorgenerator filter
Magnetic levitation module Flywheel module
Power conversion module
* UL-certification requirements have an upper limit of 600 Vdc
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2009 Pentadyne Power Corp. Pentadyne products are made in the USA. Specifications subject to change without notice.
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20750 Lassen Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 pentadyne.com 818.350.0370
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The battery-free solution for your UPS system

Product of the Year 07

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Technology Pioneer 2007

Reliable UPS energy storage

Typical continuous power quality solution

Batteries and reliability

Theres a better way

Lower radial electromagnet

Makes batteries more reliable...

Bridging the gap

...Or eliminates batteries altogether

without all the maintenance and costs of lead-acid batteries

wet cell batteries wet cell batteries access

Reliability Each cycle degrades reliability Unaffected by cycling

Key features and benefits

Soft start IGBT power convertor

To UPS battery input

Power conversion module controller (PCMC) Control panel

Magnetic levitation module (MLM)

Versatile Interface: Remote Monitoring, Diagnostics & Control

Magnetic levitation module Flywheel module

Power conversion module

* UL-certification requirements have an upper limit of 600 Vdc

20750 Lassen Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 pentadyne.com 818.350.0370

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