Project Grant NNM14AA01G

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $556,861 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on fluid dynamics in confined geometries, specifically related to heat management in high-power electronic devices. The research aims to unravel the enigma of hydraulic jumps, a phenomenon observed in liquid flows, and understand how it may impact the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) to conduct collaborative research on understanding thermal transport across a condensing film by performing experiments in microgravity conditions on the International Space Station. The research aims to better characterize the impact of gravity on the liquid-vapor interfacial behavior and its effect on thermal transport during the...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,998 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, to develop a passive two-phase microreactor transportation cooling system. The award has a performance period from July 22, 2024 to April 21, 2025. The project aims to advance specialized thermal management technologies for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Advanced Cooling Technologies...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,992 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a "Thermally Enhanced Obstructed Flow Board for Hot Spot Mitigation". The project aims to design and produce advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, cold plates, and cooling systems for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Act, a for-profit manufacturer of...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new sub-kelvin refrigerator using superfluid helium vortex cooling. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, Yale University will analyze, design, build a prototype, and benchmark a two-stage cooling system combining a superfluid vortex cooler and Joule-Thomson precooler. The system aims to achieve high-capacity cooling below 1K without using helium-3, addressing stockpile depletion issues. By...

This $399,404 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports research to study the effects of parametric forcing on Marangoni flows in non-isothermal thin fluid layers, with the goal of enhancing heat transfer in materials processing and cooling of high-speed computational devices. The primary objectives are to determine how and when parametric forcing can prevent Marangoni flows and under what conditions it can lead to...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund the development of experimental capabilities to measure properties of supercritical fluids and their mixtures at the University of North Texas from August 2022 to July 2023. The university will obtain experimental data on critical properties for mixtures of carbon dioxide with argon and R134a refrigerant. It will also conduct natural convection experiments to demonstrate the...

Impact Cooling Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel high-density data center cooling solution. The two-year award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954 on September 30, 2022, will support Impact Cooling's proposed use of jet impingement cooling technology to achieve dramatically improved heat transfer efficiency using only air. If successful, this technology could...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

Cryomech, Inc. was awarded a $376,740 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a closed-cycle, low vibration remote cooler for cryogen-free dilution refrigerators. The funding supports Cryomech in delivering this product through March 26, 2023 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049). The Office of Science program aims to advance scientific discovery through delivering major scientific tools. Cryomech's remote cooler...