Controlling the Water Availability from a Ceramic Tube System Subjected to Non-Standard Gravities 961505
The Porous Ceramic Tube - Nutrient Delivery System (PCT-NDS) offers means to control water availability to plants under non-standard gravities. It is hypothesized that control can be obtained by applying suction pressure within the ceramic tubes. The research objectives include verifying the presented control equation for the PCT-NDS under micro-(less than 1 g) and hyper- (greater than 1 g) gravities. Experiments were conducted on a KC-135 subjecting the system to near-zero to 2 g's and to sustained hyper-gravities upto 10 g's using a centrifuge. Results indicated that the water availability can be controlled through applied suction pressure.
Citation: Tsao, D., Okos, M., and Sager, J., "Controlling the Water Availability from a Ceramic Tube System Subjected to Non-Standard Gravities," SAE Technical Paper 961505, 1996, https://doi.org/10.4271/961505. Download Citation
Author(s):
David T. Tsao, Martin R. Okos, John C. Sager
Affiliated:
Purdue Univ.
Pages: 9
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Water
Pressure
Gravity
Ceramics
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