SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ruggedized Fan Coil Assembly (RFCA)
Award amount
$239,366Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-08
- Contract end date
- 2023-12-22
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 22.1
- Topic code
- N221-054
Research abstract
Mainstream Engineering proposes to develop a ruggedized fan coil assembly (RFCA) for Navy surface ship compartment cooling. Mainstream’s RFCA provides a 13% increase in net capacity, 74% reduction in power, 58% reduction in weight, 40% reduction in chilled water usage while meeting the structural and environmental requirements of legacy fan coil assemblies (FCAs). The RFCA addresses the key size weight and power limitations of legacy FCAs by employing a novel copper microchannel heat exchanger, using an efficient variable speed fan, and replacing the aerodynamically inefficient and heavy steel cabinet structure with a lightweight, ruggedized enclosure with smooth airflow pathways.
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.
- Magnetic Bearings for Cryogenic Fluid Management
- Rapid ASCENT Propellant Loading Operations
- On-Demand Repair Part Manufacturing with MRAM
- Extremely Uniform, High Quality, and Isotopically Pure SiC Epiwafers for Quantum
- Compact, Deployable Water Purification System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Navy Vacuum Pump Replacement with Improvements
- Ruggedized Fan Coil Assembly (RFCA)
- Efficient Navy Fan-Coil Assembly
- Universal FCA Operations Regulating Module (UNIFORM)
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