ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-013
ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $124,991
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N181-013
- Solicitation
- 18.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2018-05-14 → 2019-10-14
Description
High efficiency and high specific power fuel cells are ideal for providing electric power, for UAS missions. In the 1-10 kWe auxiliary power range required for UAS applications, fuel cells maintain their high efficiency, while other power sources cannot compete. Altex is proposing to leverage its 0.25-l0 kWe proven fuel cell power systems, which operate on MIL Spec JP-8, JP-5, SPK and biofuels, to develop an Integrated Fuel Cell System (IFCS) for integration with UAS, which is scalable from 1 to 10 kWe and meet the topic requirements, including high altitude UAS operation. Under Phase I of the proposed project, design and bench scale testing will be utilized, to show the feasibility of the approach. The Phase I work will be the basis of a Phase I Option and Phase II effort, under which a 1 kWe prototype will be developed and delivered, for high fidelity testing.