SBIR/STTR Research Award
Helium and Hydrogen Mixed Gas Separator
Award amount
$124,917Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- REACTIVE INNOVATIONS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2017-12-08
- UEI
- NGBRMJ399F89
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H10.03
Research abstract
This product innovation is directed toward separating hydrogen from helium gas mixtures using a micro-channel separation unit with thin walls of a palladium-silver alloy. The micro-channels are produced in a size range of 100-200 microns such that the boundary layer thickness inside is drastically reduced when mixtures of helium and hydrogen gas flow through the channels. This thin boundary layer enhances the thermal and mass transport fluxes to the channel walls increasing the separation rate. With this micro-channel approach, the membrane surface area to volume ratio is maximized reducing the operating costs and capital costs for the unit.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- An Inexpensive Hand-Held Monitor for Measuring Fugitive Methane Emissions
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- Cold Plasma Partial Oxidation of Methane to Higher Value Products
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Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
75 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2017). Reported award amounts total $17,192,777. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture