Regenerative CO
2
-Control-A Technology Demand for European Manned Space Programs
871515
The European Spacelab uses expendable means for CO2 -control. Early investigations of an extension of the mission time beyond the 7 day nominal mission showed a remarkable mass penalty for this approach, compared with regenerative CO2 -control. In view of long duration missions regenerative CO2 -nontrol is mandatory.
Therefore a technology program has been setup, harmonized between ESA and DFVLR, screening possible methods, selecting one or two favoured ones and finally to build and test a breadboard.
This paper shortly summarizes the selection process of the methods, describes the initial breadboard and presents first test results. The scope of this paper will address the selection of adsorber materials, methods for regeneration, design of evaporators, the test hardware and the test data acquisition. Preliminary conclusion from the previous work will be drawn and the planning of the further program will be given.
Citation: PreiB, H., Breitling, W., and Funke, H., "Regenerative CO2 -Control-A Technology Demand for European Manned Space Programs," SAE Technical Paper 871515, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/871515. Download Citation
Author(s):
Helmut PreiB, Walter Breitling, Helmut Funke
Affiliated:
Dornier System Friedrichshafen, Germany
Pages: 8
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Carbon dioxide
Data acquisition and handling
Hardware
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