SBIR/STTR Research Award
HHC INFRARED VAPOR/AEROSOL MONITOR
Award amount
$281,085Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SPECTRAL SCIENCES, INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- N8CQNLSSAZY4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS FROM THE LARGE QUANTITIES OF HCL RELEASED INTO THE ATOMOSPHERE FROM SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCHES, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MONITOR THE TRANSPORT OF HCL IN BOTH VAPOR AND AEROSOL FORM INTO THE SURROUNDING AREAS. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF PHASE I ARE TO EXPERIMENTALLY DEMONSTRATE A NOVEL INFRARED LIGHT SOURCE AND TO DESIGN AN HCL VAPOR/AEROSOL MONITOR, BASED ON THE NEW INFRARED LAMP, WHICH WOULD BE BUILT AND TESTED IN PHASE II. THIS LIGHT SOURCE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE SENSITIVITY OF HCL ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS OVER THE USE OF MORE CONVENTINAL INFRARED SOURCE TECHNOLOGY. THIS ALLOWS FOR A SHORTER, MORE COMPACT ABSORPTION CELL. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THIS DEVICE CAN MEASURE HCL CONCENTRATIONS OF 0.1PPM (AND PERHAPS SMALLER) AND CAN ALSO BE USED TO DETERMINE THE PARTITIONING OF HCL IN BOTH VAPOR AND AEROSOL FORMS.
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.
- Enhanced Heat Flux Closure from Data Driven Modeling
- Development and Demonstration of an Efficient Multiphysics Modeling Framework for Rain-Induced Damage and Aerodynamic Effects on Hypersonic Vehicles
- Data-Driven Predictive Sporadic-E Model (D2PSEM)
- Comprehensive Utility for Thinning Mechanically via Automated Prescription (CUTMAP)
- Feature-aware Ablation and Reaction Simulator for Thermal Extremes
Research funding history
349 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $142,164,659. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security