SBIR/STTR Research Award
Highly Accurate Sensor for High-Purity Oxygen Determination
Award amount
$92,647Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Los Gatos Research
- Proposal award date
- 2011-02-18
- Contract end date
- 2012-02-18
- UEI
- MYRGAPL7LDK6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- T6.02
Research abstract
In this STTR Phase I effort, Los Gatos Research (LGR) and Professor Scott Sanders (Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin� Madison) propose to develop a highly-accurate sensor for high-purity oxygen determination. The analyzer, which is based on near-infrared tunable diode laser absorption spectrometry (TDLAS) and LGR's patented Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectrometry (Off-Axis ICOS), will be capable of rapidly quantifying high-purity oxygen (95 � 100 %) with very high accuracy (to better than ± 0.05 %), minimal calibration, and no zero drift. The analysis will be completely specific and exhibit no measurable cross-interferences from other background species (e.g. argon, nitrogen, water vapor,CO, CO2, or small organics). Moreover, the analyzer will be low-power, battery-operable, require no consumables, and sufficiently compact and robust for adaptability to future space missions. The high-purity oxygen sensor will help characterize NASA oxygen generators for breathing and propulsionapplications.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
160 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2013). Reported award amounts total $47,120,524. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture