SBIR/STTR Research Award
METAL/PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL COMPOSITE HEAT SINKS
Award amount
$305,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Energy Science Laboratories, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THERMAL HEAT LOADS ON SPACECRAFT ARE VARIABLE. RADIATORS SIZED FOR PEAK LOADS ARE LARGER THAN NECESSARY FOR AVERAGE LOAD . HEAT SINKS WOULD ALLOW THE RADIATORS TO BE SIZED FOR THE AVERAGE THERMAL HEAT LOAD. METAL HEAT SINKS ARE TOO HEAVY AND PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS HAVE TOO SLOW A TEMPORAL RESPONSE FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. METAL\PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL COMPOSITES ARE LIGHT WEIGHT AND HAVE A FASTER RESPONSE THAN EITHER COMPONENT. WE DESCRIBE A THREE PART PROGRAM TO ANALYTICALLY MODEL COMPOSITES, EVALUATE AND TEST MATERIALS, AND TO CONSTRUCT A PROTOTYPE COMPOSITE HEAT SINK.
Technology keywords
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