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A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Power Allocation in Electric Warships

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
98215 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N093-189-0347 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
NAVY 09-189 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
PC Krause and Associates, Inc.
3000 Kent Avenue, Suite C1-100 West Lafayette, IN -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Power Allocation in Electric Warships
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N65538-10-M-0064
Award Amount: $69,999.00
 

Abstract:

The proposed work will investigate the feasibility of a market-based power allocation method for shipboard power systems. These systems will encompass more loads demanding more power in order to meet the U.S. Navy's current and future missions. As power is a scarce resource with alternative uses, the allocation of power within a shipboard power system is posed as an economic problem. As such, PC Krause and Associates proposes to address power allocation with an artificial free market. The equilibrium points reached by free markets can be shown to be efficient in the sense that no market actor can have more without another having less. Thus, if the market actors (in this case, generation, distribution, conversion, storage, and usage devices that comprise the shipboard power system) each act according to microeconomic principles, an efficient solution emerges. The proposed work will frame the economic goals of the actors such that the efficient solution arrived at by the market corresponds to a solution that maximizes the utility of the commanding officer of the vessel. In this way, defining objectives is the only necessary human input, and the artificial market automatically controls individual devices, thereby finding the most efficient method of attaining the objectives.

Principal Investigator:

Aaron Cramer
Senior Engineer
7654648997
cramer@pcka.com

Business Contact:

Eric Walters
Vice President
7654648997
walters@pcka.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

PC Krause and Associates, Inc.
3000 Kent Avenue, Suite C1-100 West Lafayette, IN 47906

EIN/Tax ID: 351581545
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No