SBIR/STTR Research Award
SOOT INITIATION IN DIESSEL ENVIRONMENTS
Award amount
$188,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1986Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A SHOCK TUBE STUDY OF SOOT FORMATION IN AROMATIC FUELS IS PROPOSED. THE DATA BASE ON SOOT FORMATION RATES AND MECHANISMS AVAILABLE FROM PREVIOUS SHOCK TUBE, FLAME AND FLOW REACTOR EXPERIMENTS IS LIMITED TO PRESSURE BELOW TEN ATMOSPHERES. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT OF THE DIESEL ENGINE WILL SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT THE SOOTING PHENOMENOLOGY. THEREFORE, USE OF LOW PRESSURE DATA TO ESTIMATE SOOT EMISSIONS OR TO EVALUATE SOOT SUPPRESSION SCHEMES IS QUESTIONABLE. THE PROPOSED STUDY WILLRESULT IN DATA THAT WILL ENABLE QUANTIFICATION OF THE PRESURE DEPENDENT OF SOOT YIELDS IN A THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT APPROPRIATE FOR DIESEL ENGINE APPLICATIONS.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency