SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Capacity, High Efficiency Cryogenic Cooling System
Award amount
$1,498,822Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2019-11-27
- Contract end date
- 2023-09-14
- UEI
- CA6KHVAFESK4
- Solicitation number
- 18.1
- Topic code
- N181-041
Research abstract
The objective of this proposal is to fabricate and deliver to the Navy a new, highlyreliable, high efficiency, maintenance-free cryocooler to meet or exceed the goals outlined in theoriginal SBIR solicitation, while being rugged enough to deploy on a Navy surface combatantplatform. The specific objectives from the SBIR solicitation are as follows:?1.?Lifting 600 W of heat from 50 Kelvin, while rejecting to 50°C cooling water?2.?Maintaining an efficiency of 30% of the ideal Carnot thermodynamic cycle3. 1.5 W of heat lift per kg of cryocooler mass?4.?Meeting a $200/W of heat lift (@ 50 Kelvin) price point for the cryocooler and cryogen circulation / heat transport systemThis new cryocooler will enable new high temperature superconducting (HTS)applications on Navy vessels, to include power transmission and rotating machines (generatorsand motors), as well as support existing HTS applications such as degaussing and minesweeping.
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.
- Rugged HTS Wire Bundles for Shipboard Installation and Use
- Advanced Compact Shipboard HTS Cable Terminations
- High Capacity, Robust, Quick-Disconnect Power Cable Connector
- Innovative Warm-to-Cold High Temperature Superconducting Power Cable Termination
- Fission Stirling Converter
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low-Cost, High-Performance Brayton Cryocooler
- Improved Capacity, High Efficiency Cryogenic Cooling System
- Low-Cost, High-Performance Brayton Cryocooler
Research funding history
88 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2023). Reported award amounts total $22,941,409. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture