SBIR/STTR Research Award
DETECTION SYSTEMS
Award amount
$65,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- 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
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEMBRANE VAPOR CONCENTRATION DEVICE IS PROPOSED. THE DEVICE WOULD BE USED TO CONCENTRATE TRACE ORGANIC VAPORS IN AIR PRIOR TO INTRODUCTION TO A DETECTOR INSTRUMENT. IN THIS WAY, THE COMPLEXITY AND COST OF THE INSTRUMENTATION REQUIRED TO DETECT VAPORS EMITTED FROM HIDDEN EXPLOSIVES COULD BE REDUCED. THE DEVICE UTILIZES THE CONTINUOUS MEMBRANE COLUMN CONCEPT TO PRODUCE THE HIGH SEPARATION FACTORS ACIEVED WITH MULTI-STAGE MEMBRANE CONCENTRATORS, BUT AT MUCH HIGHER YIELDS AND VAPOR THROUGHPUTS. THE MEMBRANE COLUMN WILL BE FORMED USING HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES IN A COUNTER FLOW SPIRAL WOUND MODULE CONFIGURATION. THE MEMBRANE MODULE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND THREE TO FOUR INCHES LONG. THE TOTAL MEMBRANE AREA WILL BE APPROXIMATELY ONE SQUARE FOOT. IN PHASE I, THE CONCEPT WILL BE DEMONSTRATED USING AN EXISTING PERMEATION SYSTEM AND GC DETECTOR. MEMBRANES ALREADY MADE IN OUR LABORATORY AS PART OF AN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC VAPOR RECOVERY SYSTEM WILL BE USED.
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