SBIR/STTR Research Award
Titanium Loop Heat Pipes for Space Nuclear Radiators
Award amount
$69,847Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-01-24
- Contract end date
- 2006-07-24
- UEI
- Z8KVZV3DR7J4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X10.04
Research abstract
This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop titanium Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) that can be used in low-mass space nuclear radiators, such as the radiators currently being designed for Project Prometheus, as well as radiators for the lunar and Mars surfaces. LHPs are two phase heat transfer devices that can be embedded in radiator panels. Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) has completed a radiator trade study that showed that radiators with titanium LHPs have the highest specific power in the temperature range from 300 to 550 K, increasing the specific power over heat pipe radiators by more than 1/3. The Phase I program will develop titanium/water LHPs that can operate in the low to intermediate temperature range (300 to 500K), as well as the lower portion of the intermediate temperature range (450 to 550 K). The Phase II program will develop alkali metal LHPs that can operate in the intermediate to high temperature ranges (700 to 1000 K and higher).
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.
- DOD Navy SBIR Icephobic Coating for Air Cycle Machine
- Direct Etched Silicon Wafer Bonding for Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS).
- Variable Emissivity Thermal Control Capability Development for Space based Applications
- Freeze Tolerant Water Heat Pipe and Thermal Switch
- Manufacturing and Measurements of 3D-Printed Porous Structures
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Robust Engineered Thermal Control Material Systems for Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and Prometheus Needs
- Intermediate Temperature Fluids for Heat Pipes and Loop Heat Pipes
- Robust Engineered Thermal Control Material Systems for Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and Prometheus Needs
Research funding history
282 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2026). Reported award amounts total $118,415,811. 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, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services