Micro-Plasma Blade Monitoring Sensor System Navy SBIR FY2015.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.2 Topic No.: N152-095 Topic Title: Micro-Plasma Blade Monitoring Sensor System Proposal No.: N152-095-0815 Firm: Innoveering, LLC 100 Remington Blvd Ronkonkoma, New York 11779 Contact: George Papadopoulos Phone: (631) 974-7218 Web Site: http://www.innoveering.net Abstract: The ability to monitor the structural health of the rotating components, especially in the hot sections of turbine engines, is of major interest to the aero community in improving engine safety and reliability. This is also true for the Department of Defense (DoD) where current developmental and future engines will need to operate at high efficiencies to meet the mission-weighted fuel burn (MWFB) requirements. This means that engines operate with tighter running clearances, increased blade loading, at substantially higher temperatures. Current blade health monitoring sensors are capable of operating at 1100�F continuously uncooled, and have been demonstrated to work up to 1800�F with cooling. However, the use of active cooling brings forth undersired effects, and hence, a need exists to develop uncooled sensors that can operate in a +2500�F environment in the aft end of the turbo machinery. The Innoveering team is proposing an innovative, low cost, low weight, compact, rugged, in-situ engine sensor system that can operate uncooled at temperatures in excess of 2500�F. Benefits: small, less than 1/4-inch diameter and 1-inch long; low cost and light weight construction; rugged; self-maintaining to mitigate against fouling; multi-variant response that supports novle processing algorithm scheme to discern blade dynamics and their change with time. Potential commercial application is monitoring the health of blades for land based gas turbine engines - quantities in the thousands each with multiple stages that require real-time monitoring. Return