Extreme Energy Savings for the Warehousing Industry
Bravo Zulu International Ltd., (BZI) a company specializing in battery restoration devices and processes, announces the development and release to market of their new line of Patented, Industrial Battery Optimization Systems.
The new products and processes save considerable energy when maintaining and operating forklift batteries. While virtually every warehouse light bulb, air conditioning duct and ambient lighting capability has been maximized, the Industry has overlooked the most energy inefficient process; … recharging the motive batteries used in their forklift fleet!
The Conventional Forklift Battery Maintenance Cycle allows the battery to sulfate during normal use, raising the battery’s internal resistance, which causes the battery to become less productive per charge. Most new, or newly serviced batteries, run about 5 hours per charge. After about a year of operation, they often require two charges to produce the same amount of work that previously required only one charge. This results in a 50% increase in electrical energy consumption for the same productive use of the forklift, plus the battery’s useful life is diminished.
The conventional methodology then requires the battery be removed from service, moved by a large truck to a service facility, where the battery is often subject to an aggressive charging and discharging process requiring hundreds of KWH of energy. The battery is then returned to the client by truck, consuming a large amount of diesel fuel for the round trip transportation of the battery. Our data shows that batteries returning after this carbon intensive process are about 25% less efficient, than those receiving one, 5-minute BattRecon Optimization Process.
Battery Optimization, by contrast, is automatically and periodically performed in conjunction with the normal re-charging process. Once every few weeks the battery is optimized preventing the buildup of performance robbing sulfation, which keeps the battery operating at its optimum productivity. The Optimization Process consumes only about .1 KWH of energy in about 5 minutes, which is less than ONE PENNY of electrical energy! This begs the question: “Should you use one Penny of electricity every month or so and keep the battery tuned up, or later, charge twice to get the job done AND pay about $500 for conventional battery servicing?”
Previously, there was little management could do to objectively analyze and minimize the cost of re-charging their fleet of industrial batteries, nor were technologies available to remedy those inefficiencies, once discovered. With the advent of the new Battery Optimization System, warehousing managers can scientifically analyze and compute the battery’s electrical efficiency and “fine tune” their industrial battery operation to minimize costs. Management now has the tools and knowledge to maximize daily battery productivity, minimize their electrical recharging costs, extend the useful life of the battery, and virtually eliminate most battery servicing costs.
BZI has also developed the World’s only “Cloud Based,” remotely operated, battery diagnostics and servicing system that we refer to as the “Battery Robots.” The service robots, and the optimization systems, are all “Cloud Capable;” which means the diagnostic or daily optimization process may SCAN the battery metrics, then COMMAND and CONTROL the servicing devices based upon those metrics, from your cell phone, or any internet connected computer.
BZI has invited Interstate PowerCare, local power utility companies and large distribution warehousing companies, to initiate an Energy Savings Analysis Pilot Program in the Los Angeles area. The testing process is fast and simple, often taking only one or two days to complete. If your company would be interested in a no cost, battery efficiency analysis, then please contact Bravo Zulu International (www.battrecon.com) at 951-928-0595. Interstate PowerCare has a nationwide energy analysis program and they may be contacted at www.ibsa.com, or locally in the Los Angeles area at 714-276-4619.