ADVANCED CERAMIC FIBERS (ACF)
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
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Quad XE Vanes
Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
ACF Researchers work to prove out ultra-high-temperature CMC for NASA Interstellar Probe studymposi
Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
This group of silicon-converted PAN carbon fiber filaments, passed through ACF's Direct Conversion Process, are the basis for the company's CMC materials designed for extreme environments. The base carbon fiber can be seen as the black center of each filament, and the uniform, white outer layers are silicon carbide (SiC).
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Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
HFC layer is near diamond hardness * High-temperature material (3900 C melt) * Density: VC has a higher density (12.2 gm/cc). TaC/C is light-weight 2.5 to 4 gm/cc with carbon core * Key feature: High-temperature stability. Forms mixture with TaC
Advanced Ceramic Fibers Success Story
Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
Advanced Ceramic Fibers, LLC works with the Idaho SBDC on commercializing enhanced fibers into game-changing composite products.
Testing of Prototype Turbine Engine Vanes up to 1704°C (3100°F)
Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
The following video and documents provide additional technical information describing Fi-Bar™product applications, market applicability, and comparisons to existing competing fibers.
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Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
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Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF)
Today, the chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of Fi-Bar™ fiber make it an attractive degradation-resistant high temperature reinforcing ceramic for use in infrastructure, transportation, energy, aerospace, and defense applications. The following article, prepared by the Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, provides a summary of the Alpha Silicon Carbide/Carbon "Direct Conversion Process™."
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ACF has commercialized a family of low cost, high temperature metallic carbide fibers based on a unique, low cost DCP™ which converts carbon fiber into a variety of high-performance fibers. The first fiber that ACF is commercializing is an alpha-silicon carbide/carbon (a-SiC/C) fiber trademarked as Fi-Bar™. Fi-Bar™ is disruptive as it offers the highest temperature and strength performance at the lowest cost point of any competing fiber reinforcement material on the market today.
Products & Services: ceramic matrix composite (CMC) / extreme environment material / metal matrix composite (MMC) / solar heat shields / refractory material / turbine engine components / aircraft CMC fasteners / heat exchangers / enhanced battery materials / carbon fibers / nano-particles / high-temperature material / Direct Conversion Process™ / Fi-Bar™ / Quad-XE™ CMC / Idaho
Products & Services: ceramic matrix composite (CMC) / extreme environment material / metal matrix composite (MMC) / solar heat shields / refractory material / turbine engine components / aircraft CMC fasteners / heat exchangers / enhanced battery materials / carbon fibers / nano-particles / high-temperature material / Direct Conversion Process™ / Fi-Bar™ / Quad-XE™ CMC / Idaho
