Aspen Systems, Inc.’s ECU-Chill™ has been featured as a Phase III commercialization success story in the 2011 US Army SBIR Commercialization Brochure. Electronics Case Cooler Overheating is the leading cause of electronics failure and effectively cooling vehicle mounted electronics operating in extreme temperature environments has proven especially difficult. To efficiently cool electronics, a refrigeration based [...]
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Aspen Systems, Inc. Featured in the US Army SBIR Commercialization Brochure
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Aspen Systems, Inc. Develops Environmental Control Unit (ECU-Chill™)
OBJECTIVE: ASI has developed a new environmental control unit (ECU) named “ECU-Chill™” to provide cooling to military enclosures and transit cases that enables operations in high-temperature environments, while dissipating the increased heat loads generated by military electronics. The objective of this program was to develop a refrigeration based environmental control unit for electronics enclosures with [...]
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Aspen Subsidiary Opens State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Plant for Miniature Rotary Compressors
Aspen Compressor, LLC completed a major milestone in demonstrating its manufacturing capacity to produce mini-compressors for defense applications. The demonstration was performed for the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of a Title III contract under the Defense Production Act. The multiyear contract from the DoD has a budget of $7.7 million in government funding [...]
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Army Soldier System Center Awards Aspen Systems, Inc. Contract for Orientation-Independent Personal Cooling System
Aspen Systems was selected recently by the U.S. Army’s Soldier System Center in Natick, MA to optimize its Personal Cooling System and extend its operating functionality. Mobile and portable refrigeration systems are prone to difficult operating conditions, frequently not in vertical orientations, which can affect the performance of fluids and lubricants. An orientation-independent system would [...]
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NIOSH awards SBIR Phase I contract to Aspen Systems, Inc. for Personal Cooling System Optimization
The National Institutes of Occupational Safety & Health awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research contract to Aspen Systems, Inc. The project will focus on the development and optimization of personal cooling through development and testing of an advanced thermal control method. Through the implementation of an optimal thermal feedback and control algorithm, the [...]
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Aspen Systems, Inc. (ASI) is Selected for R&D 100 Award
Aspen’s personal cooling system was selected for the prestigious R&D 100 Award given annually to the top 100 new products of the year worldwide. Presented by Cahners Publishing, the R&D 100 Awards are often referred to as the Oscars of invention. Among other winners selected for these awards were automobile companies, national laboratories, Universities, and [...]
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