Oil-Free Enabling Technology: Gas Foil Bearings

Abstract: NASA has developed and commercialized high temperature coatings and bearings for extreme conditions. These technologies are now under consideration by industry for automotive applications such as turbochargers, fuel cell compressors and exhaust gas path mechanism applications. In this presentation, a review of Oil-Free technologies and their current state-of-development is introduced. Key NASA contributions to the field as documented by patents, research papers and technology demonstrations i…