SBIR/STTR Research Award
INCIPIENT COMBUSTION MONITOR FOR ZERO GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS
Award amount
$49,992Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NQEGVMEYYRT9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A DYNAMIC EXPANSION CONDENSATION NUCLEI CHAMBER FOR THE DETECTION OF SUBMICROMETER PARTICLES EMITTED WHEN COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS ARE HEATED. SUCH A DEVICE WOULD BE EMPLOYED AS THE SENSOR OF AN INCIPIENT COMBUSTION MONITOR FOR USE ON THE PROPOSED NASA SPACE STATION. COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS EXPECTED TO BE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPACE STATION WOULD BE TESTED IN A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT LABORATORY SYSTEM TO CONFIRM THE GENERATION OF SUBMICROMETERPARTICLES WHEN HEATED. A GARDNER CONDENSATION NUCLEI COUNTER WOULD BE USED AS THE DYNAMIC EXPANSION CHAMBER. A COMPUTER MODEL OF THE OPERATION OF DYNAMIC EXPANSION CHAMBERS IN TERRESTRIAL AND ZERO GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS WOULD BE USED TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENCES IN THE OPERATION OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM IN SPACE. A PRELIMINARY DESIGN FOR A PROTOTYPE MONITOR WOULD BE PREPARED. THE PROTOTYPE WOULD BE TESTED IN PHASE II OF THE PROJECT.
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.
- Family of High Voltage Standard Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
- Safe, Wide-temperature Range, Long Life 0V Storage-capable Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
- Conformable High Energy Density LiS Battery as Power Source for Unmanned Air Vehicles and Directed Energy Weapons
- Conformable High Energy Density LiS Battery as Power Source for Avionics & Sensors in Hypersonic Platforms
- Safe, Wide-temperature Range, Long Life 0V Storage-capable Batteries for Army Ground Vehicle Applications
Research funding history
274 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2025). Reported award amounts total $89,993,036. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration