SBIR/STTR Research Award
Logistic Fuel Sulfur Removal System for Shipboard Fuel Cell Applications
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2004-07-28
- Contract end date
- 2006-07-28
- UEI
- LVHYQFMMY538
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N03-T006
Research abstract
Bulk fuel desulfurization is required to apply fuel cells to a new class of naval vessels. Altex, a small business entity, and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), a research organization, have teamed up under a Phase I STTR program and have shown the feasibility of the innovative Logistic Fuel Sulfur Removal (LFSR) system. The LFSR removes the fuel sulfur from Navy fuels without detrimental impacts on fuel properties and disposes the sulfur into seawater in an environmentally safe manner. Using test data, an LFSR system was designed for desulfurizing 500 BBL/ day of NATO-F76 fuel. During the proposed Phase II program, the LFSR system will be further refined for navy applications, and a lab-scale and a subscale unit will be fabricated and tested under the Phase II baseline and Option programs. This demonstration will provide the basis for designing and integrating the LFSR into new Navy vessels.
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.
- Desulfurizer for JP-8 Fueled Tier 4 Engines (JP8T4)
- USDA-NIFA-SBIR-010774, Topic 8.4b, "Innovative Process for Developing a Balanced Biofertilizer and Biogas CO2 Removal Biochar from Combined Pyrolysis and Anerobic Digestion"
- Battery Grade Graphite Production from Biomass
- DOE Ph I DE-SC0023831, DOE FOA DE-FOA-0003279, DOE Topic C56-18b, "Compact and Low-Cost Thermal Management for Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Cells"
- DOE Phase I DE-SC0022445, FOA DE-FOA-0002859, DOE Topic 21f, "Enhanced Biochar for Soil Reclamation Co-Produced by a Drop-In Biofuels Process"
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
117 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2025). Reported award amounts total $33,304,403. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration