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Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Water Recovery Technology
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The recently developed Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Subsystem (TIMES) offers a highly competitive approach to water recovery from waste fluids for future on-orbit stations such as the Space Operations Center. Low power, compactness and gravity insensitive operation are featured in this vacuum distillation subsystem that combines a hollow fiber membrane evaporator with a thermoelectric heat pump. The hollow fiber elements provide positive liquid/gas phase control with no moving parts other than pumps and an accumulator, thus solving problems inherent in other reclamation subsystem designs. In an extensive test program, over 850 hours of operation were accumulated during which time high quality product water was recovered from both urine and wash water at an average steady state production rate of 2.2 pounds per hour.
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Roebelen, G., Dehner, G., and Winkler, H., "Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Water Recovery Technology," SAE Technical Paper 820849, 1982, https://doi.org/10.4271/820849.Also In
References
- Winkler, H. E. Roebelen, G. J., Jr. “Development of Preprototype Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Subsystem for Water Recovery,” ASME Paper No. 80-ENAs-46, presented at the Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems July 1980
- Trusch, R. B. Roebelen, G. J. Jr. “A Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation System,” ASME Paper No. 78-ENAs-19, presented at the Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems July 1978
- Brouillet, A. O. Boynton, C. K. Jr. “Applications of the Thermoelectrically Integrated Membrane Evaporator Subsystem,” ASME Paper No. 79-ENAs-48, presented at the Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems July 1979