Questek wins three SBIR Phase 1 awards

QuesTek Innovations LLC has been awarded three Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to design and develop new alloys for the US Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. The first award – “Computational Design of Oxidation- and Creep-Resistant Niobium Superalloys for High Temperature Turbine Applications” – was awarded by the US Department of Energy for QuesTek designing and developing oxidation- and creep-resistant niobium-based superalloys to enable high temperature turbines to operate with metal temperatures of 1300C and above. The second award – “Computational Design of Cost-Effective, Oxidation- and Creep-Resistant Alloys for Coal-Fired Power Plants” – was also awarded by the US Department of Energy for QuesTek designing and developing alloys for advanced ultra-supercritical power plants with steam temperatures of 760C. The third and final award – “Computational Design of High-Strength, Anodize-Free Stainless Aluminum Alloys for Aerospace Applications” – was awarded by the US Office of Naval Research and solicited by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. This award was for QuesTek designing and developing a new high-strength, anodize-free stainless aluminum alloy that will have intrinsic corrosion behavior similar to anodized 7xxx alloys and mechanical properties equivalent to non-anodized 7075-T6 alloy.
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