SBIR/STTR Research Award
ARCJET SELF-GETTER PUMPING
Award amount
$49,816Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Electric Propulsion Laboratory, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- D4AEK4RNERG4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A NOVEL, HIGH THROUGHPUT, TITANIUM GETTER VACUUM PUMPING CONCEPT THAT UTILIZES THE KINETIC ENERGY IN THE PLASMA JET EMANATING FROM AN ARCJET ENGINE AS THE GETTER PUMPING POWER SOURCE IS PROPOSED. CALCULATIONS ARE PRESENTED WHICH SHOW THAT ARCJET ENGINES, WITH EXHAUST PLUME POWERS IN THE RANGE OF 20 - 60 KW, COULD BE OPERATED STEADY STATE FOR SEVERAL TENS OF MINUTES AT A BACKGROUND PRESSURE OF 5 X 10(-4) TORR USING THIS CONCEPT. THE ABILITY TO EFFICIENTLY GETTER NITROGEN OR HYDROGEN PERMITS APPLICATION OF THIS PUMPING CONCEPT TOENGINE PROPELLANTS SUCH AS AMMONIA, HYDRAZINE, AND HYDROGEN. A PROOF OF CONCEPT EXPERIMENT IS PROPOSED TO VERIFY THIS PLASMA JET SELF-GETTER PUMPING TECHNIQUE.
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.
- Not Available
- Charging Hazard Event Controller (CHEC) System
- Charging Hazard Event Controller (CHEC) System
- Plasma Charge Balancing System for S/C Floating Potential Control
- Electrodeless Plasma (EP) Welding Processes
Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2000). Reported award amounts total $4,955,819. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration