A -- LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR ADVANCED AIRFOILS FOR COOLING TOWER FANS

Notice Date

September 25, 2000

Contracting Office

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401-3393

ZIP Code

80401-3393

Solicitation Number

DW250

Response Due

October 20, 2000

Point of Contact

Ken Touryan, NREL Technology Transfer Office, 303-275-3009 or by email: ken_touryan@nrel.gov. Posted by: Kristin Bombeck, NREL Contracts and Business Services, 303-275-3193

E-Mail Address

Click here to obtain more information (ken_touryan@nrel.gov)

Description

On behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) anticipates negotiating one or more license agreements with U.S. companies interested in commercializing a new and efficient fan technology developed at NREL. Fans are widely used throughout the economy from large cooling towers and air conditioners to smaller radiator fans on most vehicles. Total energy consumption for small, medium, and large fans is substantial. Through a multi-year effort, NREL and Airfoils, Inc. set a goal to design advanced airfoil profiles to reduce this energy consumption. Test results of these advanced airfoil profiles on a fifth-scale, eight-bladed, cooling tower fan at the Texas A&M Energy Systems Laboratory, a cooling tower certified fan test facility, have shown significant energy savings. At normal operating conditions the advanced airfoils help provide a 7% improvement in static efficiency and a 10% to 12% improvement in total efficiency relative to the NACA 63(2)-615 airfoil profile commonly used on current fans. For further information on collaboration with NREL, please contact Ken Touryan, NREL Technology Transfer Office, (303) 275-3009, or by email: ken_touryan@nrel.gov.

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20000927/ASOL005.HTM (W-269 SN500524)