Trojan Batteries has become the first lead-acid battery producer to use Smart Carbon as a standard additive in its industrial and premium flooded battery lines.
Smart Carbon is Trojan’s own proprietary formula that provides improved battery performance in partial state of charge applications.
Trojan’s engineering team has developed the Smart Carbon formula to boost battery performance and extend lifecycle in renewable energy, telecom and inverter backup systems applications, which regularly operate in an under charged state. Trojan said carbon additives help prolong battery life are important in these fields because the battery is one of the most expensive components of the systems.
“Trojan Battery is the first manufacturer to introduce a carbon additive as a standard feature in its deep cycle flooded batteries used in renewable energy, inverter backup and telecom applications. Trojan’s engineering team has spent more than five years in research and development experimenting with many types of carbon to ensure the right formula to successfully address PSOC,” said Bryan Godber, senior vice president of global market development at Trojan Battery.
Although most R&D into carbon additives has focused on their uses in start-stop hybrid automotive applications, Trojan has chosen to concentrate on deep-cycle flooded batteries for stationary applications because this technology is widely used in off-grid and grid stabling applications.
The company believes the benefits will be felt in areas where batteries are heavily relied upon for grid stabling such as parts of the world prone to power outages throughout the day. In these scenarios deep-cycle batteries are under-charged on a regular basis resulting in diminished life expectancy and higher total cost of ownership.
See the Winter 2014 issue of BEST magazine for a special feature on carbon additives in lead-acid batteries.
