Pre- and Post-Treatment Techniques for Spacecraft Water Recovery 860982
Waste water pretreatment and recovered water posttreatment techniques are essential for Space Station life support in order to achieve the necessary quality required of recycled water. This paper identifies methods of pre- and post-treatment applicable to spacecraft water recovery by distillation. The results of laboratory investigations show that oxidizers, which typically have been components of urine pretreatment formulas, produce many volatile organic compounds that contaminate the distillate and must later be removed by posttreatment. Two new nonoxidizing urine pretreatment formulas have been tested which minimize the generation of volatile organics and thereby significantly reduce posttreatment requirements. Three posttreatment methods were identified from among the many candidates that look promising (either alone or in combination) for removing organic contaminants in recovered water to nondetectable or barely detectable levels. Results of investigations are presented in this paper.
Citation: Putnam, D., Colombo, G., and Chullen, C., "Pre- and Post-Treatment Techniques for Spacecraft Water Recovery," SAE Technical Paper 860982, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860982. Download Citation
Author(s):
David F. Putnam, Gerald V. Colombo, Cinda Chullen
Affiliated:
Umpqua Research Co. Myrtle Creek, OR, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Pages: 8
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Aerospace Environmental Systems-Proceedings of the Sixteenth Ices Conference-P-177
Related Topics:
Volatile organic compounds
Spacecraft
Water reclamation
Water
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