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We will work with you to find out the right questions to ask. Then we find solutions to your experimental problems.

 

Thoughtventions Research Services

Multidisciplinary Applied Physical Sciences

Expertise

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Consulting

R & D Technical Areas and Qualifications

Custom Instruments, Testing, and Equipment

Research and Development Services

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Past Research

Past Research Projects

• Acoustically Enhanced Droplet Heat Exchangers
• An Optimized Semi-Flush Flasher
• A Novel Binder For Reactive Metal Injection Molding
• Auxiliary Optical Heating For Crystal Growth
• Extreme Environment Ceramic-To-Metal Seal
• Efficient CO₂ Gas Capture and Solution
• High Efficiency Solar Furnace Core
• High Temperature Fiberoptic Thermal Imaging System>
• High Temperature Sapphire Fiber Cladding
• High Temperature Sapphire Fiber Optic Imaging
• High Temperature Transparent Furnace
• High Power Sapphire Microwave Windows
• In-Flight Imaging Systems For Hypervelocity and Re-Entry Vehicles
• Low Mass, Low Power, Low Cost Space Furnace
• Prototype Cryogenic Solid Hydrogen Storage and Pellet Injection System
• Solid Hydrogen Fueling of an Air Breathing Supersonic Combustor
• UAV Droplet Heat Exchangers

Ongoing Research

Research Projects

Thoughtventions Facilities

Facilities

Equipment

Thoughtventions's Commercial Products

Papers by Stephen Cuyler Bates - Complete technical papers in html

Furnace

• Auxiliary Heating for Crystal Growth
• High Temperature Transparent Furnace
• Low Power Space Furnace
• Next Generation Transparent Furnace
• High Efficiency Solar Furnace Core

Combustion

• Combustion Completion in a Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Four-Stroke Engine
• Flame Imaging Studies of Cycle-by-Cycle Combustion Variation in a SI Four-Stroke Engine
• Flame Imaging Studies of Flame Development in a SI Four-Stroke Engine
• Transparent Demonstration Rocket
• Turbulent Mixing Visualization (Complete image data available on request)
• Energy Fields Effects In Internal Combustion Engines

Cryogenics

• Engineering Properties of Solid Hydrogen
• Shear Strength of Solid Oxygen

Cryogenic Propulsion

• Stable High Concentration Matrix Isolation of High Energy Species
• Techniques in Cryostabilized Additive Concentration
• Cryogenic Van der Waals Compounds
• Cryostabilized Energetic Chemical Propellants
• Solid Hydrogen Scramjet Fueling

Diagnostics

• Displaced-Line Velocity Diagnostic
• Fourier Transform Infrared Hadamard Tomography of Sooting Flames
• Infrared Monitoring of Combustion
• Magnetohydrodynamic Instability with Neutral-Beam Heating in the ISX-B Tokamak
• Elevated Temperature Oxygen Index Apparatus and Measurements

Equipment

• Gas Cooled Probe Protectors
• Inset Flasher for Runway Approach Lighting
• Sapphire Cylinder Transparent IC Engine
• Fast Gas Injector for Tokamak Fueling

Fiber Optics

• Fiber Optic Slip Ring
• High Temperature Sapphire Fiber Cladding
• High Temperature Fiber Optic Imaging

Materials

• Binder for Titanium Injection Molding
• C60 Diamond Sintering
• Process for the Fabrication of Bulk Porous Diamond

Particles in Flows

• Acoustic Agglomeration of Coal Ash
• High Altitude UAV Droplet Heat Exchanger (1997)
• High Altitude Aircraft Droplet Heat Exchanges (2010)
• Microgravity Fluid Particle Reactor

Optics

• Low Loss Sapphire Microwave Windows

Contact Thoughtventions: thought@thoughtventions.com                       Page last updated: April 2025                       860-657-9014

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