CREARE LLC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Z13
CREARE LLC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Obligated amount $149,986. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $149,986
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- Z13
- Solicitation
- SBIR_23_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NH
- Period
- 2023-07-28 → 2024-02-02
Description
Creare proposes an Autonomous Habitat Filtration System (AHFS) that uses an electrostatic precipitator and autonomous regeneration system to effectively remove dust from habitable environments in long-duration space missions. Currently, HEPA style filters are a bulky consumable that have a large pressure drop across the filter that increases over time from particle loading. Human Lunar and Mars missions will generate a lot of dust from EVAs and need to be low maintenance. The AHFS has low pressure drop so it uses a compact and efficient blower. The proposed AHFS is also highly efficient in all particles of interest including collecting ultrafine (lt;100 nm) particles. In Phase I, we will prove the feasibility of the AHFS by building a breadboard unit, demonstrating operation in proof-of-concept tests, and producing a design for a Phase II system. In the Phase II, we will build the full AHFS and measure its performance under conditions that simulate habitable environments using simulated lunar dust.