ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S16

ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Amount
$149,984
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
S16
Solicitation
SBIR_22_P1
NAICS
Place of performance
PA
Period
2022-07-21 → 2023-01-25

Description

In response to the FY 2022 NASA SBIR Solicitation Topic S06.15 Scope ldquo;Advanced Manufacturing of Loop Heat Pipe Evaporatorrdquo;, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) and FormAlloy Technologies, Inc. (FormAlloy) propose to develop a hybrid manufacturing process for loop heat pipe (LHP) evaporator.nbsp; Such a hybrid manufacturing process combines conventional sintering and additive manufacturing (AM) technology.nbsp; The process can retain the ~1-micrometer pore size of the current primary wick while eliminating the knife-edge seal (KES) that may fail under long exposure to thermal cycles and vibrations. In Phase I, ACT and FormAlloy will continue the process optimization, and perform LHP operation demonstration with evaporators fabricated by the proposed hybrid process.