SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Manufacturing Applied to LOX - Methane Turbopumps
Award amount
$124,984Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Florida Turbine Technologies Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-06-17
- Contract end date
- 2015-12-17
- UEI
- EJ5QQHF7B1P6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H2.01
Research abstract
Florida Turbine Technologies' (FTT) proposes an Additively Manufactured Modular Pump (AMMP) to provide a major leap forward in the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of combined Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies to dramatically reduce the cost, development lead time and subsequent deployment of a scalable, modular turbopump for rocket engine developers. This Phase I program will take the initial steps that will result in a test-ready, 10,000 pound thrust (10k) class LOX-Methane turbopump by the end of Phase II. Not only will this design demonstrate the significant savings in cost and time that can be realized with AM technologies, the proposed concept is designed to be inherently throttleable, will demonstrate high speed, high margin impellers, eliminates many traditional sources of leakage, and operates with propellant lubricated bearings.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Sonic Infrared Inspection for Airseals and Spacers
- Lightweight, Durable, Low-Cost Recuperators Designed for Integration with Small Turbo-generators for Future Army Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Air Riding Thrust Balance System
- Innovative Turbine Engine Propulsion Solutions for Class 3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Modular Rocket Engine Electric Pumps
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Cuberover for Lunar Resource Site Evaluation
- Additively Manufactured Monolithic LOx/Methane Vortex RCS Thruster
- Diamond_Copper Materials Based Solution for Improved Engine Performance
- Additive Manufacturing Technology for a 25,000 lbf LOX/Methane Mars Ascent Engine
- Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing for High Performance Combustion Chambers
Research funding history
61 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2019). Reported award amounts total $21,420,197. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy