SBIR/STTR Research Award
Micro-Chamber Turbine Device
Award amount
$99,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1997Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Orbital Technologies Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- XESXD6N437K9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A Micro-Turbojet system is vastly reduced in size, on the order of 1.0-10cm diameter with thrust from .051b to 8lbs. Micro-electronics machining (MEM) techniques are used to produce augmentation unit that is fitted to an existing successful micro-turbojet(5.0 inch diameter, 35 lbs thrust), augmenting the combustion and compression requirements. Combustor augmentation reduces the need for higher RPM for the smaller compressor wheels, and supplies extra oxygen. The MEM technology is derived from DARPA research, including mixing elements, deep LIGA processes, and an integral MEM igniter system. External compressed fuel and oxygen is used in the augmentation device, with the potential to develop the unit into a turbo ramjet propulsion system.
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.
- High Performance Nanolauncher
- Plastic Melt Waste Compactor Flight Demonstrator Payload (PFDP)
- Miniature Nontoxic Nitrous Oxide-Propane (MINNOP) Propulsion
- Zero G Mass Measurement Device (ZGMMD)
- Ultra High Repetition Rate Multi-Parameter Imaging Diagnostics for Reacting Flows
Research funding history
216 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2014). Reported award amounts total $56,646,148. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy