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A Review of Monitoring Technologies for Trace Air Contaminants in the International Space Station
Technical Paper
2004-01-2339
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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NASA issued a Request For Information (RFI) to identify technologies that might be available to monitor a list of air pollutants in the ISS atmosphere. After NASA received responses to the RFI, an expert panel was assembled to hear presentations from 9 technology proponents. The goal of the panel was to identify technologies that might be suitable for replacement of the current Volatile Organics Analyzer (VOA) within several years. The panelists consisted of 8 experts in analytical chemistry without any links to NASA and 7 people with specific expertise because of their roles in NASA programs. Each technology was scored using a tool that enabled rating of many specific aspects of the technology on a 4-point system. The maturity of the technologies ranged from well-tested instrument packages that had been designed for space applications and were nearly ready for flight to technologies that were untested and speculative in nature. All but one technology involved the use of gas chromatography for separation, and there were various detectors proposed including several mass spectrometers and ion mobility spectrometers. In general there was a tradeoff between large systems with considerable capability to address the target list and smaller systems that had much more limited capability.
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James, J. and McCoy, J., "A Review of Monitoring Technologies for Trace Air Contaminants in the International Space Station," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-2339, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-2339.Also In
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