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Advanced Gas Turbine Engine Exhaust Waste Heat Recovery System

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00024-13-C-4517
Agency Tracking Number: N103-229-0106
Amount: $299,223.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N103-229
Solicitation Number: 2010.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-01-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-01-23
Small Business Information
6107 W. Airport Blvd Suite 190
Greenfield, IN -
United States
DUNS: 084066641
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Emanuel Papandreas
 Vice President Engineeri
 (317) 336-4477
 mannyp@candent-technologies.com
Business Contact
 Hernando Munevar
Title: President&DEO
Phone: (317) 336-4478
Email: hmunevar@candent-technologies.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Navy ships use of gas turbine engines for both main propulsion and shipboard electrical power generation. With a typical simple cycle gas turbine nearly 65% of the energy consumed is typically lost as waste heat. Safely and efficiently recovering electrical power from this source of energy equal to an amount of power to provide a 20% reduction in fuel consumption is the program goal. Also important is the avoidance of systems that are expensive, maintenance intensive or systems that employ working fluids that could be dangerous if they were to be released inside the closed confines of a ship. To meet these program requirements, Candent Technologies is developing a waste heat recovery system utilizing an air (Brayton) bottoming cycle with the requisite heat exchangers and turbomachinery. This system has the potential to exceed the program goal of 20% fuel savings, as well as remain low cost and safe for the crewmembers. The Phase I program performed thermodynamic analysis, system trade studies and the preliminary design of a waste heat recovery system for the Rolls-Royce 501K17/K34 engine used for auxiliary power on destroyers and cruisers. The Phase II program performs the final design, hardware fabrication and test of a full scale bottoming cycle engine.

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