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Foil Face Seal For Advanced Gas Turbine Engines

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911QX-06-C-0011
Agency Tracking Number: A052-035-2807
Amount: $69,999.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A05-035
Solicitation Number: 2005.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-11-16
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-05-15
Small Business Information
15 Barber Pond Road
Bloomfield, CT 06002
United States
DUNS: 798021085
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Giri Agrawal
 Principal Investigator
 (860) 726-1204
 agragiri@aol.com
Business Contact
 Giri Agrawal
Title: President
Phone: (860) 726-1204
Email: agragiri@aol.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

There is a great need of gas turbine engines providing reduced specific fuel consumption (SFC), lower production and maintenance cost, and higher power to weight ratio. Innovative gas path seals are required to meet these goals and improve performance. Traditionally labyrinth seals have been used at various locations including at the hot turbine section of the engine. Significant amount of research has been done to replace these seals with brush, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic seals. None of these concepts have provided a satisfactory solution yet. Preliminary work has provided a foundation and cataylst that a foil face seal based on the theory of successful foil thrust bearings will greatly improve gas path seals required for advanced turbine engines. In Phase I, feasibility will be proven by analysis, design and limited testing. In Phase II, a full size foil face seal will be designed, built and laboratory tested in an environment similar to a gas turbine engine. In Phase III, the developed full foil face seal will be installed in an actual gas turbine engine and tested.

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