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Mezzo fabricates micro tube heat exchangers for a variety of applications, including aerospace, automotive racing, Department of Defense ground vehicles, economizers for ships, condensers, evaporators, liquid-liquid, liquid-air, recuperators, etc. Mezzo's expertise is designing, modeling and fabricating heat exchangers that use thousands, even tens of thousands, of stainless steel or nickel ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of a novel meso-scale combustion based power generation system (MPGS). Meso-scale engines using liquid fuels have theoretical energy densities tens of times greater than the best battery technologies. The theoretical advantages of such systems have gone unrealized due to inherent difficulties encountered when ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will employ an innovative approach to metabolically engineer algae and enable low-cost, carbon-free hydrogen production at medium to large scale. One approach to achieving high hydrogen production involves the use of green algae, which produce hydrogen by using sunlight to split water. Hydrogen production in green algae is based on the ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project will further develop the next-generation DNA test kits for forensic DNA testing. DNA profiling has developed significantly over the past 20 years and is routinely used to solve crime. Despite improvements in DNA testing technologies and equipment, a significant number of investigative biological samples do not yield informative result ...

A next generation of Fan Coil Units (FCU) is proposed which utilize an intermediate temperature water supply at 68 F to meet HVAC heating and cooling loads on ships. These new next generation FCU will require active cooling (vapor compression cycles). Mezzo Technologies fabricates high performance micro tube heat exchangers. Mezzo, along with its partner Marlo Corporation, propose to design new, ...

Through development of a combination of hardware and software, this program addresses the requirements of Satellite Communications (SATCOM) interference mitigation where no prior knowledge of the interference is available. The system will operate as a"black box,"which sits between the original SATCOM antenna system and SATCOM receiver, and will utilize spatial and time diversity combined with stat ...

ABSTRACT: This Phase II SBIR Project is aimed at development and successful demonstration of a working prototype of an active non-lethal infrasound avian denial system using infrasound energy based upon the Phase I results. The primary purpose of the system is to deny birds access to critical areas around aircraft and other high value system and avoid collision between aircraft and birds during d ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this project is to develop nondestructive evaluation technology to locate and characterize defects and damage in ceramic matrix composite material with sufficient quantification to be usable in material performance models. The Evisive microwave interferometry technique has been successfully applied to nondestructive examination and determination of density and porosity ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I SBIR, responding to RFA-AG-12-009 entitled T1 Translational Research on Aging from the NIA, explores novel cell-based therapeutic approaches to the treatment of pressure ulcers and full thickness skin wounds in the elderly. Although it is well established that the prevention of pressure ulcers requires labor- intensive nursing care, patients in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The First Locally Acting Anti-Inflammatory Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis Despite improved therapy; rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains a significant unmet medical need. The long-term goal of this project is to advance the first stem cell-based product for anti-inflammatory therapy of RA. Many ongoing or completed clinical trials have establishe ...