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Integrated oxygen recovery system
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Lee, M. Gene Davenport, Ronald J. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | Life Systems has conceptualized an innovative Integrated Oxygen Recovery System (IORS) applicable to advanced mission air revitalization. The IORS provides the capability to electrochemically generate metabolic oxygen (O2) and recover O2 from the space habitat atmosphere via a carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction process within a single assembly. To achieve this capability, the IORS utilizes a Solid Metal Cathode (SMC) water electrolysis unit that simultaneously serves as the Sabatier CO2 reduction reactor. The IORS enables two major life support systems currently baselined in closed loop air revitalization systems to be combined into one smaller, less complex system. This concept reduces fluidic and electrical interface requirements and eliminates a hydrogen (H2) interface. Life Systems is performing an evaluation of the IORS process directed at demonstrating performance and quantifying key physical characteristics including power, weight, and volume. The results of the checkout, shakedown, and initial parametric tests are summarized. |
| File Size | 605759 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930016899 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t12p01v25 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-05-07 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Gas Composition Life Support Systems Checkout Electrolysis Air Purification Gas Flow Closed Ecological Systems Oxygen Supply Equipment Oxidation-reduction Reactions Cathodes Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |