A Survey of Terrestrial Approaches to the Challenge of Lunar Dust Containment

Document Number: 2009-01-2356

Date Published: July 2009

Author(s):
Jay L. Perry - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Tatiana Aguilera - Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Abstract:
Numerous technical challenges exist to successfully extend lunar surface exploration beyond the tantalizing first steps of Apollo. Among these is the challenge of lunar dust intrusion into the cabin environment. Addressing this challenge includes the design of barriers to intrusion as well as techniques for removing the dust from the cabin atmosphere. Opportunities exist for adapting approaches employed in dusty industrial operations and pristine manufacturing environments to cabin environmental quality maintenance applications. A survey of process technologies employed by the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, food processing, and mining industries offers insight into basic approaches that may be suitable for adaptation to lunar surface exploration applications.

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See other papers presented at International Conference On Environmental Systems, July 2009, Savannah, GA, USA, Session: Lunar and Martian Dust Properties and Mitigation Technologies (Part 2 of 3)

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