TvU Ongoing Research Programs

TvU Priority Research Programs

High Temperature Sapphire Fiber Cladding

Developing a sapphire fiber cladding for sensor fibers that tolerates greater than 1400°C.

Low Power Furnaces

Convection, radiation, and conduction heat losses are dramatically reduced, allowing dramatic decreases in the furnace power. Applications include space and extra-terrestrial furnaces, and special-purpose laboratory furnaces.

Particle Heat and Mass Exchangers

Using particles in flows to enhance scalar transport. High Altitude Droplet Heat Exchanger, Microgravity Particle Fluid Reactor.

High Temperature Furnaces

Developing materials and techniques that allow fabrication of very high temperature furnaces using low to moderate power.

TvU Secondary Priority Research Programs

Industrial Radiant Heat Reflectors

Developing a industrial high efficiency heat reflectors.

Solid Hydrogen Fueling of an Air Breathing Supersonic Combustor

Wall injection of solid hydrogen particles to allow cryostabilized materials to be added to scramjet fuels.
US Patent # 6003300

Cryostabilized Energetic Materials

Developing techniques to generate materials that are stabilized at cryogenic temperatures. Applications include combustion catalysis and next generation rocket fuels.

Extreme Temperature Chemistry

Exploring chemical reactions in the high temperature and cryogenic temperature regimes.

Ozone Fuel Research

Developing techniques to allow ozone to be used as a stable, high-energy rocket fuel.

Decade Long Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage

Developing a system to store cryogenic hydrogen for decades with small mass loss.

Microwave Enhancement of Combustion

Flame speeds can be increased and combustion enhanced using microwave absorption in special combustion environments.

Cryostabilized Propellant Additives (pdf)

Energetic atoms/molecules are stabilized in a cryogenic fuel matrix such that the total propellant mixture provides revolutionary increases in propellant power. Properties of Solid Hydrogen, Cryostabilized Additive Paper1 (pdf), Cryostabilized Additive Paper2 (pdf). Related work has been done on Cryogenic Van der Waals Compounds.

High Temperature Chemistry

Exploring the practice and theory of high temperature (over 1000°C) chemistry.

High Temperature Catalysts

Developing a stable high temperature (1400°C) noble metal catalyst/substrate combination.

Bulk Porous Diamond

Developing a diamond sintering technique developed to fabricate bulk (many cm diameter) porous diamond.
US Patent # 5885541

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Last updated: November 2021