SBIR/STTR Research Award
Light Weight 1.5 Ton AARU
Award amount
$69,975Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Energy Concepts Company, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-09-10
- Contract end date
- 2010-03-10
- UEI
- MBJKJUG4ELP2
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- A09-090
Research abstract
It is proposed to improve the logistics of providing utilities (electricity and chilling) to battlefield military units. The goal is to provide 30% savings in fuel, generator capacity, and system weight for meeting a representative demand of a forward operating unit. The key savings are from using generator waste heat to supply part or all of the heat demand of a heat-actuated cooling system (HACS). The ammonia absorption refrigeration units (AARU) developed by Energy Concepts Co. have demonstrated all the required HACS operating characteristics except the low weight. That is to be achieved in this project by applying state-of-art microchannel heat exchange technology to key AARU components.
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.
- Sustainable Small Chillers for Agricultural and Rural Applications
- Industrial Grid Flexibility by Refrigerant Energy Management System
- SUSTAINABLE SMALL CHILLERS FOR AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL APPLICATIONS
- Light Weight ECU / AARU
- Portable Cogeneration of Power and Waste Heat Actuated Cooling
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Integrated Portable Power and Cooling System
- Heat Actuated Cooling System
- Heat Actuated Cooling System
- Integrated Portable Power and Cooling System
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1984–2024). Reported award amounts total $3,283,187. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture