Study of Oxygen Generation System for Space Application 911429
Non-regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) removal system, oxygen (O2) gas storage system, and other consumables have been utilized for the past short-term environmental control system on orbit because of the advantages of system weight, electric power consumption, system reliability, and so forth. However, to sustain long-term manned activity, regenerative resource recycle systems should be essential to reduce the quantity and frequency of resupply from the Earth.
O2 generation system (OGS) is indispensable to this resource recycle systems and water electrolysis technology is considered to be suitable for near future space applications. The authors have been studying OGS since 1985 concerning a new solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) and simplified cell structure.
This paper describes OGS development status and results of preliminary experiments.
Citation: Ishida, H., Shoji, T., and Kitazawa, Y., "Study of Oxygen Generation System for Space Application," SAE Technical Paper 911429, 1991, https://doi.org/10.4271/911429. Download Citation
Author(s):
H. Ishida, T. Shoji, Y. Kitazawa
Affiliated:
Kawasaki Heavy Ind., Ltd.
Pages: 8
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1991 Transactions - Aerospace-V100-1
Related Topics:
Carbon dioxide
Electric power
Energy consumption
Oxygen
Control systems
Electrolytes
Gases
Polymers
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