SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Maintenance Low Cost Magnetically Actuated Valves
Award amount
$79,982Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- TREX ENTERPRISES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2010-12-01
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RN43FYPYNKP4
- Solicitation number
- 2010.2
- Topic code
- N102-160
Research abstract
Modern warships contain thousands of valves for purposes as diverse as freshwater distribution, wastewater, firefighting, cooling water, ballast control, bilge, fuel, hydraulics and more. These valves entail significant maintenance burdens requiring crew members'time, spare parts, and removing important systems from service while maintenance and repairs are conducted -- This can have severe impacts on mission availability, reliability, maintenance, and logistics. Trex Enterprises is proud to propose a new concept for magnetically actuated low maintenance, low cost valves to the US Navy. These valves contain a completely sealed magnetic coupling where the stem once penetrated the gland packing offering numerous advantages over traditional valves including:
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.
- Metalens Solar Compass (MLSC)
- Millimeter Wave Imaging Radar (MIR) for Identification of Human in Degraded Visual Environments
- Rotor High Speed Imaging System (RHIS)
- CNS for Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessels
- CNS for Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessels
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Valve Stem Isolation (VSI)
- Low Maintenance Low Cost Magnetically Actuated Valves
- Valve Stem Isolation (VSI)
- Low Maintenance, Low Cost Valves: Laser Cured Nano-Structured Protective Valve Coatings
Research funding history
103 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2025). Reported award amounts total $44,634,758. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration