News & Updates

Portable Nuclear Power Module Program Launches at Brayton

Brayton continues our 16 year development efforts in the areas of gas cooled nuclear reactors. Our first major project, at the formation of the company 16 years ago, led to key developments in the area of pebble bed reactors, compact heat exchangers, and turbomachinery design. Over the years, Brayton has worked with many companies, government …

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US DOE GEN3 Advanced Concentrated Solar Power Program Moves into Phase 2

Brayton successfully meet the milestones of Phase 1 and received the green-light to proceed with the Phase 2 scope. Our expanding CSP team is gearing up for a battery of critical tests this summer, including the high temperature CO2 to particle heat exchanger testing and solar receiver testing.

Brayton Wins SETO Award to Advance High Temperature Heat Exchangers

Brayton’s award entitled Creep and Fatigue Characterization of High Strength Nickel Alloys Thin Sections in Advanced CO2 Heat Exchangers will expand our data base and allow more accurate life analysis of high temperature heat exchangers. Brayton’s Unit-Cell technology enables extremely compact and light weight microchannel heat exchanger designs. Working with Oak Ridge National Labs, Brayton …

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Brayton Wins International Contract for Alternative Energy Gas Turbine

Brayton received a competitive award from the BIRD Foundation, a joint US/Israel initiative. In the project, Brayton will develop a special purpose gas turbine for converting thermal energy from biomass and thermal energy from other sources such as concentrated solar power. https://www.birdf.com/bird-energy-approved-projects/

Brayton Wins XTech Awards for US Army, Presents at AUSA Conference

Competing in a ‘Shark Tank’ pitch competition hosted by the US Army, Brayton has received two competitive awards for our advanced UAV turboprop gas turbine. See Braytonites Antoine Corbeil and Chad Everbeck pitch the design in this YouTube interview from the end of 2019. This engine offers light weight, superior SFC, and compactness for the …

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TF50F Combustor Improvement Program Meets Targets in Full Engine Test

Brayton has worked with Vericor, MTU, and Honeywell for over two years leading the design team to introduce an ultra-low emissions, lean-premixed combustor for Vericor’s TF50F aero-derivative industrial gas turbine. Vericor Power Systems’s gas turbine engines have a venerated reputation, earned from years of service in industrial power generation, mechanical drive, and marine applications. The …

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Brayton Receives ARPA-E Award for Long Duration Utility Scale Energy Storage Project

Our award, under their “DAYS” initiative (Duration Addition to electricitY Storage) is entitled Improved Laughlin-Brayton Cycle Energy Storage. This 2 ½ year advanced development project will design and test a novel high efficiency turbomachine to enable Professor Robert Laughlin’s Pumped Thermal Energy Storage concept to achieve competitive efficiencies and cost. Brayton will be working with …

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Brayton Receives Award from the Air Force Research Lab for Turbocharged Wankel Engine

In SBIR Phase 1 and 2 projects, Brayton designed, built and tested a tiny turbocharger integrated with a high-speed alternator. The novel design incorporated a new low-cost air bearing system, for exceptionally lightweight and oil-free maintenance. Building on the success of our SBIR, Brayton will proceed to integrate the turbo-alternator with a 40 hp Wankel …

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Brayton Receives Two Major CSP Awards

Brayton has received two highly competitive grant awards from the US Department of Energy. The major SunShot GEN-3 Initiative is intended to be the spur commercialization of utility-scale concentrated solar power combined with energy storage to provide firm renewable power for the utility. In the major Category 1, Brayton will lead a team to develop …

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Brayton Receives Award on the ARPAe INTEGRATE Initiative

The US ARPAe Agency was created to cultivate new high risk, high reward energy technologies. This newest competitive award seeks to create a class of ultra-high efficiency power blocks for distributed electrical generation. With a target of 70% natural gas to electric conversion efficiency at the 100 kWe power level, this ultra clean power module …

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Brayton’s Combustor Demonstrates Ultra Low Emissions for Chinese Gas Turbine

Brayton provides services for the gas turbine industry, developing low emission combustors for existing and new engines. In 2017, Brayton re-rated an old KG2 gas turbine engine for a Chinese client, cutting their CO and NOx emissions by a factor of four. In subsequent work, Brayton collaborated in the design of an all-new gas turbine …

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