MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N162-079
MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $79,959
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N162-079
- Solicitation
- 2016.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2016-12-21 → 2017-10-20
Description
Improvements in fuel efficiency for the developing ACV 1.1 vehicle are sought. While relatively efficient, even the best vehicle turbodiesel engines have efficiencies of only 30-44% depending on operating condition. Since the engine inefficiency is the largest energy loss, we will focus on scavenging waste energy from power plant of the vehicle. Mainstream will also combine vehicle energy regeneration synergistically with the waste energy scavenging to improve fuel efficiency. We calculate that the approach will yield a 10.5% improvement in fuel efficiency when evaluated over the anticipated drive cycle of the ACV 1.1. The proposed approach has additional benefits including potential faster acceleration and deceleration rates, as well as being a near drop-in replacement to the current power plant.