SBIR/STTR Research Award
HIGH ENERGY DENSITY COMPOSITE FLYWHEELS FOR SPACE-BASED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS
Award amount
$455,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MATERIALS SCIENCES LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- GKJZWMKKWWX4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- 17d
Research abstract
A TECHNICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM DIRECTED TOWARDS THE STUDY OF HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FLYWHEELS IS PLANNED. A NEW FLYWHEEL CONCEPT THAT INCORPORATES FEATURES OF BOTH DISK AND RIM STORAGE FLYWHEELS WILL BE INVESTIGATED. THIS CONCEPT USES A NUMBER OF CONCENTRIC BUT SEPARATE COMPOSITE RINGS AS THE PRIMARY ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE. THESE RINGS ARE SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO TAPERED COMPOSITE DISKS THAT PROVIDE THE MECHANISM FOR TRANSMITTING ENERGY FROM THE RINGS TO A SHAFT. STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMIC ANALYSES OF THE FLYWHEEL WILL BE PERFORMED TO DETERMINE THE STRAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MATRIX MATERIAL USED IN THE DISKS. CANDIDATE MATERIALS THAT EXHIBIT HIGH STRAIN TO FAILURE WILL BE STUDIED EXPERIMENTALLY. BASED ON THESE RESULTS, MATERIALS WILL BE CHOSEN FOR PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT IN PHASE II.
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.
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- 17d. Laser-based ammonia slip sensor for on-road diesel-powered vehicles
- Distributed Bimodular Sensors for Onboard Diagnostics of Automotive Aftertreatment Devices
- Robust, selective NOx species sensor for tailpipe emissions
- Novel Membranes for Electrochemical Hydrogen Compression Enabling Increased Pressure Capability and High Pumping Efficiency
- Novel Sulfonated Block Copolymers for Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Compression
Research funding history
223 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $77,459,684. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation