SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Heat Sink Technology for Application to Aircraft Systems
Award amount
$79,877Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Boyd Lancaster, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2011-10-21
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HUT3XNPLRL77
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- N112-093
Research abstract
To assure satisfactory cooling for future JSF upgrades, the proposed solution is a vapor compression refrigeration system packaged with both a pumped PAO cooling loop and a thermal energy storage (TES) system in a standard avionics rack for the JSF. The vapor compression system, VCS, will provide the sub-ambient cooling required as avionics power is increased. A VCS gives the highest efficiency for sub-ambient cooling. The pumped PAO loop will interface to the avionics racks. PAO is already an approved coolant for aircraft. The TES will store additional thermal capacity for the cooling system for high power transient excursions. Including this feature will increase mission capability during extreme operating conditions. The Phase 1 work effort involves a system design and subscale prototype technology emonstration.
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.
- Additive Manufacturing of Heat Pipe Wicks
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Durable Solution for Compressor Airfoil Leading Edges in Gas Turbine Engines
- Thermal Control for Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Satellites
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Manifolded micro-groove aircraft heat exchangers
- Innovative Heat Sink Technology for Application to Aircraft Systems
- Low thermal resistance two-phase cooling loop for aircraft thermal management
Research funding history
137 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $29,166,147. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation