SBIR/STTR Research Award
Pump for mixed phase refrigerant
Award amount
$2,533,722Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2012-06-25
- Contract end date
- 2017-02-20
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- SB112-001
Research abstract
Current refrigerant pumping technology lacks the ability to circulate a liquid-vapor mixture with substantial flow resistance, which impedes development and implementation of two-phase cooling technology.Common pump designs will hydro-lock and mechanically fail instantly or suffer performance loss and eventually fail due to cavitation or worn components.Mainstream Engineering Corporation has designed, fabricated, and tested a device that is capable of pumping R-134a refrigerant in saturated mixtures ranging from liquid to vapor, which will be refined and brought to TRL7 in Phase II.Refinement efforts will concentrate on increasing efficiency of the proven device.The performance enhanced pump will be production intent ready on a common platform for cross function commercialization.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Scroll Pump for Vapor Liquid Mixtures of Refrigerants
- Scroll Pump for Vapor Liquid Mixtures of Refrigerants
- Vapor-Liquid pump for Mixed Phase Refrigerant
- Vapor-Liquid Pumping through Integral Separation
- Pump for Vapor-Liquid Mixtures of Refrigerants
Research funding history
518 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $184,860,329. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency