SBIR/STTR Research Award
Scalable JP-10 Production from Sustainable Resources
Award amount
$140,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-17
- Contract end date
- 2024-01-16
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 23.A
- Topic code
- N23A-T015
Research abstract
Mainstream Engineering, in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), will develop and demonstrate a process to produce renewable JP-10. The process includes several reaction steps that begin with biomass-derived xylose. Our JP-10 process minimizes the number of reactors and will be continuous by integrating all the steps. To date, only one renewable route to JP-10 has been proposed and no route has been demonstrated at any kind of continuous, pilot-scale. By improving carbon yield at critical steps and developing scaled, continuous processing units, we will pioneer the production of renewable JP-10, reduce current costs of sustainable fuels, and replace fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Novel Method to Produce Renewable JP10
- Novel Method for Renewable JP10 Production
- Non-thermal Plasma for Deployable JP-10 Fuel Synthesis
Research funding history
518 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $184,860,329. 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, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency