Complex Compound Comfort Air Conditioning for Electric Vehicles

Information

• NSF Award
• 9460537

Owner

• ROCKY RESEARCH, INC.

• Award Id

  9460537

• Award Effective Date

  6/15/1995 - 29 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  7/31/1996 - 28 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 74,904.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This SBIR Phase I project addresses a new type of system to provide comfort heating and cooling for the occupant compartment of `Next Generation Vehicles`. Conventional systems are heavy and require use of electric power to operate. This adds additional battery weight and reduces the range attainable with a given electric vehicle design. A complex compound based system would store heating and cooling potential during the electric vehicle charging process, and release this energy as required during vehicle operation without the use of electric power. It would also result in lower vehicle weight, further increasing the vehicles rangeability. Phase I objectives will be to select the best complex compound media for this type of system, perform rate testing and heat exchanger optimization and establish the viability and the proposed concept.

• Program Officer

  Ritchie B. Coryell

• Min Amd Letter Date

  6/9/1995 - 29 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  2/16/1996 - 29 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Rocky Research

• City

  Boulder City

• State

  NV

• Country

  United States

• Address

  1598 Foothill Drive

• Postal Code

  890051803

• Phone Number

  7022930851

• First Name

  William

• Last Name

  Dooley

• Start Date

  6/9/1995 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Engineering-Chemical

• Code

  53