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BIO-Plex Thermal Control System Design
Technical Paper
2001-01-2324
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Engineers at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) are using innovative strategies to design the TCS for the Bio-regenerative Planetary Life Support Systems Test Complex (BIO-Plex), a regenerative advanced life support system ground test bed. This paper provides a current description of the BIO-Plex TCS design, testing objectives, analyses, descriptions of the TCS test articles expected to be tested in the BIO-Plex, and forward work regarding TCS. The TCS has been divided into some subsystems identified as permanent “infrastructure” for the BIO-Plex and others that are “test articles” that may change from one test to the next. The infrastructure subsystems are the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC), the Crew Chambers Internal Thermal Control Subsystem (CC ITCS), the Biomass Production Chamber Internal Thermal Control Subsystem (BPC ITCS), the Waste Heat Distribution Subsystem (WHDS) and the External Thermal Control Subsystem (ETCS). Some of the test articles identified thus far are a solar vapor compression heat pump, composite coldplate shelves, prototypic cooling jackets, and various devices that utilize waste heat.
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Morton, R., Stambaugh, I., Weaver, G., Ewert, M. et al., "BIO-Plex Thermal Control System Design," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-2324, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2324.Also In
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