The industrial application of energy storage is a very broad topical area that cannot be adequately treated in a short chapter. To convey the scope of such a diverse range of applications, this chapter focuses on just three representative industrial areas: (1) material handling trucks such as forklifts and front end loaders, (2) cranes and hoists such as the rubber tired gantry crane used for container loading and unloading in shipyards, and (3) earth moving equipment such as excavators and drag lines.

Inspec keywords: supercapacitors

Other keywords: material handling trucks; forklifts; rubber tired gantry crane; cranes; drag lines; excavators; ultracapacitor applications; energy storage; industrial application; front end loaders; hoists; earth moving equipment

Subjects: Other power apparatus and electric machines