A Membrane-Based Subsystem for Very High Recoveries of Spacecraft Waste Waters 860984
This paper describes the continued development of a membrane-based subsystem designed to recover up to 99.5% of the water from various spacecraft waste waters. Specifically discussed are 1) the design and fabrication of an energy-efficient reverse-osmosis (RO) breadboard subsystem; 2) data showing the performance of this subsystem when operated on a synthetic wash-water solution-including the results of a 92-day test; and 3) the results of pasteurization studies, including the design and operation of an in-line pasteurizer. Also included in this paper is a discussion of the design and performance of a second RO stage. This second stage results in higher-purity product water at a minimal energy requirement and provides a substantial redundancy factor to this subsystem.
Citation: Ray, R., Retzlaff, S., Radke-Mitchell, L., Newbold, D. et al., "A Membrane-Based Subsystem for Very High Recoveries of Spacecraft Waste Waters," SAE Technical Paper 860984, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860984. Download Citation
Author(s):
Roderick J. Ray, Sandra E. Retzlaff, Lyn Radke-Mitchell, David D. Newbold, Donald F. Price
Affiliated:
Bend Research, Inc., Bend, OR, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Pages: 16
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, SAE 1986 Transactions - Aerospace-V95-6
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Water
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