SBIR/STTR Research Award
SELECTIVE MEMBRANES
Award amount
$49,996Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JZ1RVB5TNLX9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
MAINTAINANCE OF A HABITABLE ATMOSPHERE ON BOARD A MANNED SPACECRAFT REQUIRES REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE PRODUCED BY CREW RESPIRATION. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP MEMBRANES AND MODULES ABLE TO SEPARATE C02 FROM AIR. TO MAKE THE PROCESS ENERGY EFFICIENT AND COMPACT, THE MEMBRANES WILL BE HIGH FLUX COMPOSITE STRUCTURES. THE FEASIBILITY OF THE APPROACH WILL BE DEMONSTRATED IN PHASE I. IN A SUBSEQUENT PHASE II PROGRAM, THE MEMBRANE SYSTEM WOULD BE REFINED AND AN ENGINEERING STUDY PERFORMED TO OPTIMIZE SYSTEM DESIGN. A PROTOTYPE UNIT ABLE TO CONCENTRATE C02 FROM A LOW AMBIENT CONCENTRATION (0.3%) TO ALMOST PURE C02 SUITABLE FOR DISCHARGE WOULD THEN BE CONSTRUCTED.
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.
- STTR Phase II: New Perfluorodioxolane- and Perfluorodioxane-based Copolymer Membranes for Gas Separations
- STTR Phase I: New Perfluorodioxolane- and Perfluorodioxane-based Copolymer Membranes for Gas Separations
- SBIR Phase I: Hybrid Membranes with Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Natural Gas
- Membrane Process for solvent Reclamation and Reuse
- SBIR Phase II: Carbon-Ceramic Composite Membranes for Olefin-Paraffin Separations
Research funding history
191 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2016). Reported award amounts total $31,990,487. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration