florrent applications
Data Center Peak Shaving & Backup Power
Grid Reliability & Enhanced-STATCOM
Renewables Firming
Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS)
florrent applications
Data Center Peak Shaving & Backup Power
Grid Reliability & Enhanced-STATCOM
Renewables Firming
Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS)
Power Quality & Reliability
To learn more about how florrent can deliver winning unit economics in short-duration PQ&R applications, download our concept paper that takes a deep dive into the UPS use case.
Learn more by downloading our white paper, Competitive Analysis: florrent Supercapacitors for AI Data Centers
The floCAP™
florrent's signature supercapacitor cell, in a standard 60138 form factor. Reach out to learn more about the available options and customizations.
The floMOD™
florrent's signature supercapacitor module, rack-mount compatible with real-time conditions-reporting over CAN. Reach out to learn more.
Contoured Carbon™
florrent’s core technical innovation is our supercapacitor active material, Contoured Carbon™—a patented pure-carbon electrode material designed to bring exceptional performance to electric double layer capacitors. Contoured Carbon™ unlocks unparalleled energy, but is drop-in-ready to an industry-standard supercapacitor stack, meaning that florrent doesn't sacrifice key performance characteristics like power, leakage current, ESR, or temperature window for higher energy in our cells, modules, or systems.
Learn more by downloading our Contoured Carbon™ concept paper
Domestically Sourced Feedstock
While most supercapacitor active materials are derived from synthetic petroleum-derivatives, or south Pacific coconut shells, florrent starts with waste biomass grown locally in the United States.
florrent works with our network of Black and Indigenous farmers to source this waste, bringing wealth back to partner communities, and sequestering carbon away in a solid mineral form that serves as the active energy storage material for our supercapacitors.
FAQs
While both technologies store electrical energy, supercapacitors (also known as ultracapacitors or EDLCs) and batteries use fundamentally different charge storage mechanisms. The end result of this difference is that batteries store about 100x the energy of supercapacitors, while supercapacitors can deliver about 100x as much power as batteries, and pay out that power over millions of cycles compared to thousands for batteries.
But why the difference? Batteries store charge “Faradaically”, meaning that when batteries charge or discharge, positively charged ions need to be physically shuttled from one side of the battery to the other, balancing the external flow of electricity. Physically shuttling matter from one side of the cell to another makes batteries slow compared to supercapacitors, but also means that they have higher energy density and can hold a charge for longer. Supercapacitors store charge electrostatically using a phenomenon called an “electric double layer” (or EDL). This EDL discharges energy without any ion shuttling, meaning that it can provide almost instantaneous power!
Today’s supercapacitor industry relies heavily on active material derived from coconuts grown in the south Pacific. Supercapacitor active materials not made from coconut shells are instead derived from petroleum byproducts.
Using waste biomass, florrent can localize production of supercapacitor active material to where it’s needed, and use feedstocks that sequester atmospheric CO2 without embedding significant emissions in their value chain. florrent’s supercapacitors can lock the carbon from biomass away in a solid mineral form, while not using a feedstock like coconut that is climate-change vulnerable and bakes significant emissions into its supply chain.
