SBIR/STTR Research Award
Orbital Pump for Microgravity Applications
Award amount
$69,990Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Fluid Flow Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
This proposed work will develop a new pump design, which is based on a uniquely generated orbital motion. The pump is intrinsically sealed and mechanically balanced, resulting in quiet, safe operation. The pump design has no seals, valves, bearings, complex mechanical linkages, or drive motor. Its simplicity promises to provide a pump, which is compact and reliable, has low mass, and possesses quiet, safe operation, ideal for long-term, space-based, microgravity applications.
Technology keywords
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