Supporting NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Program, this project's technologies directly address requirements for noise reduction concepts for commercial and military aircraft engine systems. This project's technologies offer improved core noise reduction in a lightweight, tailorable package at a substantially lower cost than current systems. CRG's lightweight, inexpensive, tailored Sialyte(TM) liners may have broad applicability for NASA in aerospace applications where noise and high temperatures are of concern.
Government systems that would derive the same benefits would include but not be limited to turbine engine combustor sections, solid and liquid rocket motors, automobile exhaust systems, and other future applications that will require simultaneous noise suppression and high temperature performance operated by the Department of Defense. This technology's attributes for turbine engine combustor sections should yield a high potential for private sector commercialization for easily manufacturable, highly tailorable acoustic liners for combustor sections by GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, and Honeywell to name a few.
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