Development of ruggerized high-performance supercapacitors for OPEX environment
Today, energy is proving to be essential to all defense activities. Civilian world currently develops innovations in energy, that cannot fully be used by armies due to specific and harsh conditions requested by defense forces. Mechanical robustness, operational safety, autonomy, operation, even in degraded mode still require major developments to be used in a military operations.
The SC4OPEX project proposes a particular approach addressing this problem by implementing a new generation of robust high-performance supercapacitors. Supercapacitors are electrical energy storage devices whose mechanisms are based on very fast and reversible kinetics which give them great abilities to provide high power and recharge quickly ensuring high cyclability without degradation. They will be developped specifically to overcome existing shortcomings through hybridization concepts and push the limits of high energy density technologies such as lithium batteries currently available and limited in terms of power, operating temperature, safety and reliability in harsh environments. SC4OPEX technology will attempt to make them usable by defense forces by developing a high-power supercapacitor that can be hybridized with a battery, and a high-energy hybrid supercapacitor.
PROJECT COORDINATION: Gregory Pognon (Thales Research & Technology)
PARTNERS :
– CINTRA CNRS International – NTU – Thales Research Alliance
– LPPI LABORATOIRE DE PHYSICO-CHIMIE DES POLYMÈRES ET DES INTERFACES – EA 2528
– TRT Thales Research & Technology
– CEA-NIMBE-LEDNA
Learn more: https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-22-ASEN-0004