AEROCORE TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF211-CSO1

Description

The United States Air Force (USAF) maintains a fleet of approximately 4,132 aircraft.  Aircraft sustainment and maintenance costs continue to increase faster than the budgets provided to support the aging fleets.  Aircraft maintenance costs continue to consume a significant portion of the fleet readiness and sustainment budgets. AeroCore’s Nucleated Foam Technology™ is designed to restore air-cooled heat exchangers & jet engines back to peak performance.  Our technology can significantly reduce lifetime sustainment costs, improve efficiency, reduce maintainer hours & improve overall readiness. AeroCore’s Nucleated Foam Technology is designed to restore air-cooled heat exchangers & jet engines back to peak performance.  Our technology can significantly reduce lifetime sustainment costs, improve efficiency, reduce maintainer hours & improve overall readiness. AeroCore is the inventor of this aircraft engine restoration maintenance technology with proven results up to 5% fuel efficiency recovery & 30ºC+ EGT margin improvement. By removing 99%+ of the internal engine fouling, we can significantly reduce lifetime sustainment costs & improve fuel efficiency.  Sustainment costs are extremely high for the CV22 – driven by aircraft design & environmental conditions. AeroCore can drastically improve the overall performance of the air-cooled heat exchangers on the CV22 aircraft.  The heat exchangers are a critical component to maintaining acceptable temperatures across the drive systems on the aircraft.  There are 4 seperate heat exchangers on each CV22 aircraft.  Our foam technology has ~10 years of proven application in the oil & gas and aviation sectors.  The AFERX SBIR Phase I program is an excellent opportunity for USAF to test AeroCore’s ability to adapt our current processes and tooling to be safely and effectively used on aircraft heat exchangers.  We believe this will drastically improve efficiencies, reduce aircraft operating cost, & improve overall operational mission capabilities.