ElevatorKERS
Energy savings of up to 70% with ElevatorKERS
Kinetic Energy Recuperation System for elevators.
Elevator-KERS (Kinetic Energy Recuperation
Systems.
Skeleton has innovated an exceptional energy-saving product that harnesses the vertical motion of elevators to generate electrical energy storage. Moreover, this solution serves as a reliable backup during blackouts, enhancing security by providing supplementary power
storage when the elevator is in operation.
Why Supercapacitors instead of Batteries?
Ultracapacitors are an energy storage technology that is often compared to batteries, but the two technologies have quite different features and ideal applications. The benefits of ultracapacitors are well-established: long lifetime of about 15 years or more than 1,000,000 charge-discharge cycles, the ability to charge and discharge in seconds, high power density, and high reliability, lowering maintenance and replacement costs significantly. KERS is in many ways an ideal application for ultracapacitors, because fast charging and discharging, and the high number of charging cycles are what supercapacitors excel in.
ElevatorKERS connection to a lift traction system
The ElevatorKERS is a single module that has inside both the power converter and the energy storage. This module has a height of 414 mm, a depth of 166mm and a width of 266mm.Thanks to these dimensions, it can be easily located in almost any machine room with lift installation.
ElevatorKERS’s fundamental feature is that the connection with the drive is very simple and it’s only made through three wires (positive, negative and ground), with no need for any kind of adaptation or preparation.
ElevatorKERS –
the best option for energy savings