Aluminum Combustor

Program Manager: Mr. Aaron D. Lazarus

The Aluminum Combustor program seeks to develop an energy-dense air-independent underwater power source as a potential propulsion system for underwater vehicles. This program will optimize the design for a small combustor and develop the auxiliary power system components needed to control and sustain operations. In addition to the combustor, the aluminum fuel feed subsystem, aluminum-steam separator subsystem; and closed loop control subsystem will be designed, built, and tested and integrated with a turbine in order to successfully demonstrate a power system in a laboratory environment.