SBIR/STTR Research Award
Foil Gas Bearing Supported Quiet Fan for Spacecraft Ventilation
Award amount
$99,995Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- R&D Dynamics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2009-01-22
- Contract end date
- 2009-07-22
- UEI
- FN9VRJT8ZDZ5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X2.01
Research abstract
Developing a quiet fan for Environmental Control and Life Support systems to enhance the livable environment within the spacecraft has been a challenge. A Foil Gas Bearing Supported Fan is proposed which will be quiet, efficient, reliable, contamination free, compact, and lightweight.
In Phase I a set of foil gas bearings necessary to prove out the feasibility of the program will be manufactured and tested. In Phase II a complete prototype fan will be manufactured and tested incorporating the technology proved out in Phase I. In Phase III the developed fan will be system tested for airworthiness.
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.
- Foil Gas Bearings for High Temperature Gas Turbine Engine
- Low Cost Foil Bearing Supported Helium Circulation Fan
- High Efficiency R744 Centrifugal Chiller
- High Temperature Solid Lubricant Coatings for Foil Air Bearings
- Foil Gas Bearing Supported High Temperature Cathode Recycle Blower
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Seeing Sound - Image Analysis of the Lift-off Acoustic Field
- Alternative Fabrication Designs for Carbon-Carbon (C-C) Nozzle Extensions
- Seeing Sound - Image Analysis of the Lift-off Acoustic Field
- Design and Analysis of Metal-to-Composite Nozzle Extension Joints
- Free-Surface Modeling of Cryogenic Fluids Using a Higher-Order, Unstructured Grid Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) Method
Research funding history
20 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2012). Reported award amounts total $6,800,293. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration