SBIR/STTR Research Award
IN-SITU ELECTRICAL TESTING OF MULTICELL THERMIONIC FUEL ELEMENTS
Award amount
$74,552Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Applied Sciences Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KFNNH3CBM7Q9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
IN PHASE I AN IN-SIT METHOD IS PRESENTED FOR ELECTRICALLY HEATING EMITTERS OF MULTI-CELL IN-CORE THERMIONIC FUEL ELEMENTS (TFES). NUCLEAR HEATING IS NOT REQUIRED. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY SUPPLYING PULSES OF ELECTRIC CURRENT TO MOMENTARILY BIAS THE COLLECTORS IN THE TFE WI A SEVERAL-VOLT NEGATIVE VOLTAGE. ELECTRONS ARE EMITTED FROM THE NOMINAL COLLECTOR VIA SCHOTTKY EMISSION AND HEAT THE EMITTER VIA ELECTRON BOMBARDMENT HEATING. NO OTHER KNOWN METHOD, OTHER THAN INSERTING THE TFE IN A NUCLEAR REACTOR, CAN BE USED TO TEST THE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IN-CORE TFE PRIOR TO REACTOR INTEGRATION.
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.
- Ceramic Fabrication with Control of Micrograin Structure via Nano Additives
- Protective Paint for Radar Absorbing Material Maintainability
- Nano Nucleation of Unique Long Range Order Materials via Seed Crystals
- Flexible, lightweight nanocomposites for EMI shielding suppression in automotive applications
- CO2 to Carbon and Water via Plasma Catalysis
Research funding history
128 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2022). Reported award amounts total $29,010,302. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency