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Cascade Distillation Subsystem Development: Progress Toward a Distillation Comparison Test
Technical Paper
2009-01-2401
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Recovery of potable water from wastewater is essential to the success of long-duration human missions to the moon and Mars. Honeywell International and a team from the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) are developing a wastewater processing subsystem that is based on centrifugal vacuum distillation. The wastewater processor, which is referred to as the cascade distillation subsystem (CDS), uses an efficient multistage thermodynamic process to produce purified water. A CDS unit employing a five-stage distiller engine was designed, built, and delivered to the NASA JSC Advanced Water Recovery Systems Development Facility for performance testing; an initial round of testing was completed in fiscal year 2008 (FY08). Based, in part, on FY08 testing, the system is now in development to support an Exploration Life Support Project distillation comparison test that is expected to begin in 2009. This paper provides a description of the CDS technology, a status of project activities, and data on the performance of the system to date.
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Callahan, M., Lubman, A., and Pickering, K., "Cascade Distillation Subsystem Development: Progress Toward a Distillation Comparison Test," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-2401, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2401.Also In
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