SBIR/STTR Research Award
Air Flow Noise Reduction Techniques
Award amount
$99,277Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- International Mezzo Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-07-30
- Contract end date
- 2009-01-30
- UEI
- PTLAWMJEKZF9
- Solicitation number
- 2007.3
- Topic code
- N07-163
Research abstract
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) currently is extremely noisy. The goal of the proposal is to reduce noise produced by the cooling system for the engine, which consists of fans,heat exchangers, and ducting to the outside. Mezzo is developing mirco tube heat exchangers that provide a much improved ratio of heat transfer/pressure drop compared to conventional heat exchangers (i. e. plate-fin heat exchangers). Mezzo's approach to reducing noise is to replace the heat exchanger currently in use with one that will meet the heat exchanger specifications, while reducing dramatically the pressure drop across the heat exchanger. Reducing the required positive pressure generated by the fan will make it possible to use much quieter fans, as well as fans that require less power. Quieter fans will result in a much quieter system.
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.
- LIGHTWEIGHT MICROTUBE PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL HEAT EXCHANGERS
- A 2-5 MW Supercritical CO2 micro tube recuperator: manufacturing, testing, and laser weld qualification
- A 2-5 MW Supercritical CO2 micro tube recuperator: manufacturing, testing, and laser weld qualification
- Cooling/Thermal Management System Development for Active Denial Technology (ADT) and High-Power Radio-Frequency vehicle Stopper (RF) Systems
- Cooling/Thermal Management System Development for Active Denial Technology (ADT) and High-Power Radio-Frequency vehicle Stopper (RF) Systems
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Air Flow Noise Reduction Techniques
- Low Noise Axial Fan Optimization for the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
- Low Profile Multimodal Acoustic Treatment
- Low Noise Axial Fan Optimization for the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
Research funding history
35 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2022). Reported award amounts total $13,998,558. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation