SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Rotor Blade Anti-Icing/De-Icing Technologies
Award amount
$730,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- FBS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-09-19
- Contract end date
- 2010-09-19
- UEI
- C8F2MBQU2KJ5
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- A07-007
Research abstract
FBS, Inc. and The Pennsylvania State Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE), during Phase I of its Army Phase I SBIR contract, demonstrated improved ultrasonic deicing/anti-icing performance using a novel ultrasonic focusing technique. The resulting technology has shown great potential for providing a low-power, light-weight alternative to thermal-based ice protection systems currently used on rotor blades. We are now looking to further reduce the energy needed for de-icing using novel sensing concepts and wave propagation modeling. Phase II testing will fully demonstrate system effectiveness through extensive impact ice testing.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Acoustic Emission Health Monitoring System for DOT Pressure Cylinders
- Advanced High-Temperature Ultrasonic Sensing Arrays for Under-lead Viewing and NDE
- Guided Wave Phased Array for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Canister Evaluation
- NDT of Fracture Toughness for Pipeline Steels
- Ultrasonic Imaging of Mechanical Degradation In Superconducting Magnets
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
50 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2024). Reported award amounts total $19,162,790. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration