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Incineration of Inedible Biomass in a Regenerative Life Support System - Developmental Efforts at NASA Ames Research Center
Technical Paper
2000-01-2282
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Of the many competing technologies for resource recovery from solid wastes for long duration manned missions such as a lunar or Mars base, incineration technology is one of the most promising and certainly the most well developed in a terrestrial sense. An incinerator was used to recover and recycle part of the waste produced during the Early Human Testing Initiative Phase 3 (EHTI 3) at Johnson Space Center. The fluidized bed incinerator developed for the EHTI testing was a joint initiative between Ames Research Center, University of Utah and Johnson Space Center. Though in no way an optimized system at that time, the fluidized bed combustor fulfilled the basic requirements of a resource recovery system. Valuable data was generated and problem areas, technology development issues and future research directions were identified during the EHTI testing. This paper seeks to document the research and developmental efforts at Ames Research Center in this area, the ongoing tests and future goals to develop incineration as a solid resource recovery technology for space-based applications.
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Pisharody, S., Moran, M., Fisher, J., and Tleimat, M., "Incineration of Inedible Biomass in a Regenerative Life Support System - Developmental Efforts at NASA Ames Research Center," SAE Technical Paper 2000-01-2282, 2000, https://doi.org/10.4271/2000-01-2282.Also In
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