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Methodology Development of Atomistically-Informed Chemical Kinetics Model for…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
95065 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
N10A-005-0657 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
NAVY 10T005 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
1046 New Holland Avenue Lancaster, PA -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Methodology Development of Atomistically-Informed Chemical Kinetics Model for Rubber Composite Materials
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N68335-10-C-0371
Award Amount: $69,991.00
 

Abstract:

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 project will develop a novel methodology to build atomistically-informed chemical kinetics models for oxidation and pyrolysis in particulate filled-rubber composite materials. In Navy operations, these materials are widely used in extreme temperature conditions and oxidizing environments. Accurate prediction of the material properties under these conditions is important to optimize their performances. Traditional chemical kinetics models often contain a large number of uncertainties in the rate parameters and their complexities increase rapidly with the number of chemically active species and possible reaction pathways. Information from atomistic-level simulations will help to accurately investigate the chemical reactions involved in these multi-component materials, and effectively select the most important reactions, thus enabling efficient model simplification. Reactive molecular dynamics simulations will be used to estimate the reaction pathways at nanosecond timescale. To capture the reaction events occurring at microsecond timescale, we will employ accelerated molecular dynamics techniques with reactive force-fields. Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) will be in collaboration with North Carolina State University (NCSU) on this project to develop an atomistically-informed chemical kinetics model and the associated methodology that are capable of accurately predicting reaction kinetics for diverse filled-rubber systems at high temperature and pressure conditions.

Principal Investigator:

Tapan Desai
R&D Engineer
7172956061
tapan.desai@1-ACT.com

Business Contact:

Jon Zuo
President
7172956058
jon.zuo@1-ACT.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
1046 New Holland Avenue Lancaster, PA 17601

EIN/Tax ID: 571146896
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
North Carolina State University
Department of Material Science
Raleigh, NC 27695
Contact: Donald Brenner
Contact Phone: 9195151338