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Chemical approaches to carbon dioxide utilization for manned mars missions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Kubiak, Clifford P. Hepp, Aloysius F. Landis, Geoffrey A. |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | Use of resources available in situ is a critical enabling technology for a permanent human presence in space. A permanent presence on Mars, e.g., requires a large infrastructure to sustain life under hostile conditions. As a resource on Mars, atmospheric CO2 is as follows: abundant; available at all points on the surface; of known presence; chemically simple; and can be obtained by simple compression. Many studies focus on obtaining O2 and the various uses for O2 including life support and fuel; discussion of CO, the coproduct from CO2 fixation revolves around its uses as a fuel, being oxidized back to CO2. Several new proposals are studied for CO2 fixation through chemical, photochemical, and photoelectrochemical means. For example, the reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons such as acetylene (C2H2) can be accomplished with H2. C2H2 has a theoretical vacuum specific impulse of approx. 375 secs. Potential uses were also studied of CO2, as obtained or further reduced to carbon, as a reducing agent in metal oxide processing to form metals or metal carbides for use as structural or power materials; the CO2 can be recycled to generate O2 and CO. |
| File Size | 1097489 |
| Page Count | 24 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910010702 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0qr9qp2x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Exploration Photoelectrochemistry Life Support Systems Oxygen Atmospheric Composition Photochemical Reactions Carbon Dioxide Concentration Manned Mars Missions Hydrocarbon Fuels Mars Atmosphere Hydrogenation Acetylene Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
