SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Softwall Shelter Heating System
Award amount
$79,994Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2015-06-18
- Contract end date
- 2016-04-17
- UEI
- LVHYQFMMY538
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- N151-001
Research abstract
A fuel flexible heating system will be developed to allow the use of alternate fuel sources such as wood, wood pellets, corn husks and other readily available plant-based organics, and even solid waste generated by the Marine Corps. The system will integrate the Altex proven fossil fuel burner with a gasifier that has been proven on Army wastes, creating a Clean Multi Fuel Soft Wall Shelter Heater System (CMF-HEAT). The system will also use a compact heat exchanger design to reduce the system weight and volume.Under Phase I the system will be designed and a full scale system consisting of the fossil fuel burner and gasifier will be tested to show the feasibility of the concept. These tests and analysis will be used to compare the CMF-HEAT weight, volume and performance with the targets that are listed in the topic. Under the Phase I option, a detailed design will be generated for low cost manufacturing and will be the basis for a Phase II, under which a prototype will be developed, tested and delivered for field testing.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Desulfurizer for JP-8 Fueled Tier 4 Engines (JP8T4)
- USDA-NIFA-SBIR-010774, Topic 8.4b, "Innovative Process for Developing a Balanced Biofertilizer and Biogas CO2 Removal Biochar from Combined Pyrolysis and Anerobic Digestion"
- Battery Grade Graphite Production from Biomass
- DOE Ph I DE-SC0023831, DOE FOA DE-FOA-0003279, DOE Topic C56-18b, "Compact and Low-Cost Thermal Management for Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Cells"
- DOE Phase I DE-SC0022445, FOA DE-FOA-0002859, DOE Topic 21f, "Enhanced Biochar for Soil Reclamation Co-Produced by a Drop-In Biofuels Process"
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improved Softwall Shelter Heating System
- Portable Multi-fuel Shelter Heater
- Improved Softwall Shelter Heating System
Research funding history
117 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2025). Reported award amounts total $33,304,403. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration