SBIR/STTR Research Award
IMPROVEMENTS IN TOTAL SOLAR PYRANOMETER DESIGN
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- YANKEE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- U54KJSNGEQN1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE AND REDUCTIONS IN MANUFACTURING COSTS FOR THE TOTAL SOLAR PYRANOMETER ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS PROJECT. THE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO PROVIDE THE ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEER WITH MORE PRECISE INFORMATION ON INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION SO THAT NEW SOLAR-DRIVEN ENERGY SCHEMES CAN BE COMPARATIVELY EVALUATED. PHASE I REEXAMINES THE ORIGINAL CALLENDAR PYRANOMETER AND INTRODUCES UP-TO-DATE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES TO REDUCE UNCERTAINTIES IN THE MEASUREMENT. SPECIFIC METHODS FOR REDUCING COSINE ERRORS AND FOUR APPROACHES TO REDUCING TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES ARE BEING CONSIDERED. A PROGRAM FOR OBTAINING INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE RESULTING DESIGN IS BEING USED. EXPERIENCES GAINED FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODERN ULTRAVIOLET-B (UV-B) PYRANOMETER ARE BEING HEAVILY DRAWN UPON.
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.
- Smokesonde: Low cost in-situ sampling of smoke and convective storm intensity supporting fire weather and incident meteorology
- Guidesonde: Targeting Meteorological Dropsonde with Optical and In-Situ Sensors
- Atmospheric Characterization for Directed Energy Applications
- STTR Phase I: Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum for Learning, NSF11-561
- Glidersonde, a Meteorological Optical Profiling Sensor
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2023). Reported award amounts total $12,837,256. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration