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INERGIAE Static Converters is a start-up in the field of Power Electronics that has experience in the development, production and commercialization of high-voltage power supplies (main product) and other converters. The company was formally founded in 2013 but began actual operations in 2014.
The company was created with the goal of researching and developing high-voltage power supplies, based on the work of a master’s degree developed at a Brazilian university by the founder of the company, who developed a converter to drive a TWT valve, whose application is in the military field.
At the end of 2015, INERGIAE was contracted by the electric power utility company to develop a microinverter for use in photovoltaic systems. The development of this equipment requires knowledge of Power Electronics, but in another line of activity, other than high voltage sources. However, the knowledge acquired in the project was very interesting. The project had a duration of 2.5 years and had an intense interaction with a Brazilian university, where it originated a master’s thesis and made possible for 2 other students (1 master’s student and 1 doctoral student) to participate in the development project.
In the year 2016, at the request of LabMat (a Materials Engineering lab of a university), a pulsed source was developed, with a voltage of -750V and +100V, frequency up to 100kHz, pulse duration of less than 1 microsecond. There was born the DRUM model that is used in research work in the field of PECVD (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition).
INERGIAE has a strong link with the research sector and, through interaction with researchers, has been expanding its product line and improving its technical quality. In the national market, INERGIAE stands out for the variety of its products and the high voltage and power of its equipment.
High voltage DC sources (1kV to 100kV) are used in X-Ray equipments, tomographs, RF amplifiers, TWT valves, radars, particle accelerators, processes involving vacuum and plasma, etc, being therefore essential for the development of the country. Therefore, the news that the company Inergiae has developed the technology for these high voltage sources and is making them available to the market is celebrated by the potential users of this technology and also by the entire Brazilian Power Electronics Community.
I am particularly happy with this news, because the company has been created and is being led by Odair José Custodio, who did his master’s thesis, under my guidance, in the Graduate Program of Electrical Engineering at UFSC, precisely in the area of high voltage power supplies, with professionalism and technical competence. The qualification he acquired during his master’s course accredits him as one of the most qualified professionals in high voltage power supply projects in the country.
It is my personal belief that Inergiae will be an extremely important protagonist in the Brazilian market of high voltage DC sources and that it will contribute significantly to the modernization of many technical, scientific and productive activities in the country, as well as to its economic and social development.
CRBS Tech is a technology development company, focused on the areas of health, mineral exploration, communication and energy.
The company works with some strategic partners that provide a greater speed in these developments.
We can highlight, then, the company Inergiae as one of the partners that has been performing services of excellence and quality, respecting the schedule of CRBS Tech in the important phases of the project.
Inergiae will always be CRBS’s partner for conducting its work with total professionalism.
See in full the Technical Capacity Certificate provided by the power distribution utility CELESC of Santa Catarina.
Inergiae’s team provides an excellent service by developing high-tech equipment. Before, we depended on imported equipment of very high cost and practically without assistance in the country.
Today we use national products with direct access to the development team, with solutions tailored to our needs.
I have known Inergiae since its foundation. I know the competence of its professionals, and the products generated are technologically very evolved and demonstrate quality and robustness of construction.
In the Innovation Lab at UFSC a hybrid powertrain for a light urban vehicle is under development.
One of the equipments used for storage and fast energy supply is a supercapacitor that needs a high-power DC-DC converter.
These types of converters are not off-the-shelf items, and it is difficult to find companies that take on the challenge of producing them. Inergiae accepted, did a technologically advanced job, with high quality construction, performed exhaustive tests to ensure the proper functioning of the equipment, and presented complete and detailed manuals.
I was very satisfied with the work done.