SBIR/STTR Research Award
LOW TEMPERATURE THERMIONIC CONVERTERS
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1997Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Boyd Lancaster, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HUT3XNPLRL77
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The following proposal describes a conceptual thermionic converter configuration and operating mode which, if successfully developed could provide 12-15% efficiwent thermionic energy conversion at cathode temperatures below 1500K. The concept builds on experimental work done in the United States on "Hybrid-mode" converters, and on improvements made in the Former Soviet Union which demonstrated greater than 12% conversion efficiency at cathode temperatures less than 1500K. The proposed thermionic converter concept makes use of electrical insulation to separate, or "split", different sections of the cathode or anode to better optimize the characteristics of hybrid-mode thermionic converters. These "split" electrodes", when combined with previously demonstrated hybrid-mode thermionic operation provide the potential for practical, low temperature thermionic energy conversion for commercial and military electric power generation.
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.
- Additive Manufacturing of Heat Pipe Wicks
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Innovative Heat Sink Technology for Application to Aircraft Systems
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Durable Solution for Compressor Airfoil Leading Edges in Gas Turbine Engines
Research funding history
137 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $29,166,147. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation