SBIR PHASE I: Lightweight Composites for High Performance Vanes

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将研究使用碳-碳(C-C)复合材料制造旋转发动机部件。这些部件将被设计为创新的旋转式发动机，其工作原理是所谓的“真正的柴油”压缩点火循环。这些C-C组件的成功改装将使这款发动机不仅更紧凑、重量显著减轻、更安静、更省油，而且成本也比目前可用的活塞式或旺克尔式发动机更低。在分析了发动机的工作条件后，将对这些部件进行有限元热分析和应力分析。第二阶段将集中于与战略伙伴的进一步发展。碳-碳复合材料的潜在商业应用包括电池和燃烧部件、轴承、齿轮、轴、喷嘴、坩埚、高温合金生产、高温胶带和拉丝模具、传感器、计算机读写头、电机电刷和微电子设备中的高级热管理设备中的耐磨和耐腐蚀电容器。旋转式发动机在动力、制冷、直升机和材料搬运行业中有许多应用，由于单位重量的高马力而成为全球市场。

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project will examine the fabrication of rotary engine parts using carbon-carbon (C-C) composite materials. The innovative rotary engine for which these parts will be designed operates on what is known as the `true Diesel` compression ignition cycle. Successful adaptation of these C-C components will result in this engine not only being more compact, significantly lighter in weight, quieter and more fuel efficient, but also costing less than presently available piston or Wankel type engines. Finite element thermal and stress analysis of these parts will be done after the operating conditions of the engine have been analyzed. Phase II would concentrate on further development with strategic partners. Potential commercial applications for C-C composites include wear and corrosion resistant capacitors in battery and combustion components, bearings, gears, shafts, nozzles, crucibles, high temperature alloy production, high temperature tape and wire drawing dies, sensors, read-write heads in computers, brushes in electric motors, and superior thermal management devices for microelectronics. The rotary engine has numerous applications in power, refrigeration, helicopter, and materials handling industries and is a global market due to high horsepower per unit weight.