Synthesis of Alpha Aluminum Hydride an Advanced Propellant Ingredient Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Topic No.: N05-070 Topic Title: Synthesis of Alpha Aluminum Hydride an Advanced Propellant Ingredient Proposal No.: N051-070-0079 Firm: Mobius TransMetals, Inc. 10000 Caliente Creek Road Caliente, California 93518 Contact: Leroy Dunning Phone: (661) 867-2707 Web Site: n/a Abstract: The objective of this proposal is the Synthesis of a 25-gm sample of Alpha Polymorph, Rhombic Cube of Aluminum Trihydride, AlH3, "Alane," and provide characterization, analysis, and delivery to government laboratories for evaluation. The result will demonstrate the feasibility of producing Polymorphic Aluminum Hydride in a single-phase reaction between vaporous aluminum and hydrogen. This Phase I proposal including option, will demonstrate the objective stated above as verification-of-process for a Phase II apparatus, the Mobius Trans-Metals Inc., Advanced Metal Gas Vapor Reactor, AMGVR, in order to scale-up the process to pound quantities for larger-scale evaluation and process research as well as establish parameters to define mini-pilot plant design of pure Alpha Alane (2000 pounds/year scale); Benefits: The production of Alane is essential to our national defense, it will immediately be developed to attain parity with Russian and chinese weapons, air-to-air, surface-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, but will also be used in launch vehicle propellant formulation. further still, it will be taken into the private sector as hydrogen storage materials. the process itself can be modified for recrystalization of RDX, AN, AP and others into nano-sized ingredients improving storage and sensitivity concerns that now plague the micron sized propellant formulations. Return