SBIR/STTR Research Award
Hypersonic Vehicle Electrical Power Generation through Efficient Thermionic Conversion Devices (19-RD-182)
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- UES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-12-12
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-12
- UEI
- FV5WK6YTN215
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- AF192-048
Research abstract
The Phase I effort will be to design and fabricate a test thermionic emission module device. The emitter and collector surfaces will be refractory metal alloys with a minimum work function and will be polished to a 0.01 μm tolerance. Each surface will be coated with BaSrO to ensure the lowest possible work function. A mica-ceramic sleeve with a recessed emitter will maintain a 10 μm gap spacing from the collector that is optimal for a vacuum type device. The operating temperatures to be explored will be between 1600K-2000K (emitter) and 800K-1200K (collector). A single device may deliver 1-10 A at an output voltage of 0.5-1 V. The eventual thermionic device power output goal would be 1-10 W/cm2, which could be modularized to produce 10-100 kW of electrical power over 1 m2 of surface area within the hypersonic vehicle.
Technology keywords
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Research funding history
294 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2023). Reported award amounts total $73,979,003. 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 Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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