SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Performance Arcjet Engines
Award amount
$59,981Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- 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
IT IS PROPOSED THAT ADVANCED ARCJET ENGINES CAN BE DEVELOPED USING KNOWN PRINCIPLES FOR ADVANCED NOZZLE DESIGN, ARC ATTACHMENT, INCREASED CHAMBER EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE AND SO FORTH. SUCH STUDIES ARE PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS BY RESEARCHERS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. YET THESE PRINCIPLES RESULT IN INCREASED HEATING OF THE ANODE, AS THE ARC MORE EFFECTIVELY HEATS THE ANODE. THIS CAN BE ACCOMMODATED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SPECIAL COMPOSITE ELECTRODE WITH HIGH THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY. A BORON-DOPED CARBON COMPOSITE IS PROPOSED, WHICH WOUDL OFFER AN ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE IMPROVEMENT IN THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY COMPARED TO COPPER OR TUNGSTEN, AND YET WHICH OFFERS REASONABLE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND EXTREMELY HIGH TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY AS WELL. I(sp) AS HIGH AS 1900 sec IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WITH SUCH TECHNOLOGY.
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