SBIR/STTR Research Award
CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR PYROMETALLURGICAL REPROCESSING
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ATS-MER, LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- F8HABDW7DVG8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE MATERIALS REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PYROMETALLURGICAL REPROCESSING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL ARE QUITE DEMANDING. IN FACT, CURRENTLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS LIMIT PYROMETALLURGICAL REPROCESSING. INNOVATIVE CERAMIC COMPOSITES OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO OVERCOME CURRENT MATERIALS LIMITATIONS AND PROVIDE NONREACTIVE AND NONWETTABLE CONTAINERS TO MOLTEN AND/OR VAPORIZED METALS AND SALTS FOR PYROMETALLURGICAL REPROCESSING TO 1,900 DEGREES CENTIGRADE. TWO SUCH INNOVATIVE CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS ARE ALN-BN-SIC WITH WHISKERS AND ZRO2-TIB2 WITH THE TIB2 AS PARTICLES, PLATELETS, OR WHISKERS. AN ALN-BN-SIC CERAMIC COMPOSITE HASHIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND THERMAL SHOCK RESISTANCE; A ZRO2-TIB2 COMPOSITE IS INSULATIVE AND CAN BE DIRECTLY INDUCTION HEATED. IN PHASE I THE CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN A STATISTICAL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH AND THE OPTIMIZED CERAMIC COMPOSITES WILL BE TESTED FOR COMPATIBILITY TO 1,900 DEGREES CENTIGRADE.
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.
- AM of Layered Structures
- Large Parts Additive Manufacturing
- High Value Carbon Products from Domestic Coal
- Ultra-lightweight Lubrication Free Hybrid Carbon Composite Ring-less Piston Engines for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
- Solid State Non-powder Process for Boron Nitride Nanotube Metal Matrix Composite
Research funding history
464 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2018). Reported award amounts total $100,117,977. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation