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M-DOT Wins DARPA Award for Microturbine Development

darpa award for micro turbine design

2000 - Out of a field of more than 350 Small Business contractors, M-DOT alone wins DARPA's "Outstanding Performance by a Small Business Contractor" award.

2002 - M-DOT is selected for and successfully develops a warm-gas-driven fuel turbopump for Boeing's DARPA/ONR HyFly Hypersonic Missile.

turbopump on test stand fuel pump

2003 - M-DOT Successfully Operates the World's Smallest Gas Turbine Engine with a shaft speed of over 400,000 rpm.

worlds smallest gas turbine

2008 - Fuel-Lubricated Bearings are demonstrated to 294,000 rpm for operation in a tiny turbocharger for UAV heavy-fuel engines.

turbocharger high speed bearing test

Engineering Design and Development

M-DOT operates a full-service engineering facility with expertise in gas turbine design, high-speed rotordynamics, burner design, compressor design and the design of complete turbopumps systems.

We have designed and developed two twin-spool turboprop engines for the Army and have developed two hypersonic ramjet turbopumps for DARPA (as a subcontractor to Boeing) and directly for the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center.

Other successful projects include a 118 lb. thrust pulsejet engine for the Army AMRDEC that featured electronic fuel injection timed to the combustion cycle, a thrust reverser for a small expendable turbojet engine, a thrust augmentation system for an expendable turbojet that featured an afterburner and water-methanol injection system that demonstrated a 155 percent augmentation ratio.

We have developed complete gas turbine test systems for two universities. One system featured high-speed servo control of fuel, compressor bleed and turbine exit area.

Other successful projects include the design, test and FAA certification of an aircraft start-current limiter system and an aircraft APU silencer system. We have complete familiarity with System qualification and certification including 150-hour type tests for gas turbines

M-DOT Aerospace has an in depth cadre of experienced and degreed engineers of various backgrounds and capabilities with a total combined experience base in gas turbines and aerospace of over 250 years. Housed in a facility of 2,875 sq ft, they use a networked Pentium-based computer system to use the following software:

Six seats of SOLIDWORKS® design code for solid modeling
Eight seats of AutoCAD® and AutoCAD Lite for drafting
XL Rotor for rotodynamics analysis
GECAT® for on- and off-design thermodynamic analysis of gas turbine engines and systems
Internally developed code for gas-turbine cycle analysis
NASA/Army computer code for gas-turbine cycle analysis
COSMOSWORKS® for finite-element stress analysis and heat transfer
QUIK and CCODP Fortran code from NASA GlennRC for modeling radial-flow compressor designs
RTD and RTOD Fortran code from NASA GlennRC for modeling radial inflow turbine designs

Testing

M-DOT can test your engine or pump system with full tracability of standards and processes. We can also assist in the design of test systems.

Lab and test equipment includes the following:

Filtered laminar flow assembly bench
Ultra precision scale
10 hp air compressor
Two small gas-turbine test stands
Engine performance instrumentation
National Instruments LABVIEW®
Digital data aquisition
Emergency shutdown systems
Start system
Burst containment
Fuel stand
Microturbine test cell
Engine test equipment

We are Constantly Upgrading our Facility and Capabilities

In 2009 we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary!

Call Us if You Need:

Assistance in design and development of any aerospace system regardless of complexity. From simple exhaust ducts to entire twin-spool turboprop engines. Examples of products and projects include:

Hot Formed Titanium Structures

Small Gas Turbines

Turboalternators

Turbopumps

Turbo Fuel Pumps

High Speed Electric Motors

High-Speed Bearing Systems

Turbochargers

Turbine-Driven Generators

Missile Sub-Assemblies