Performance Enhancement, Power Reduction, and other Flight Concerns - Testing of the CO
2
Removal Assembly for ISS
1999-01-2111
This paper describes testing of four-bed molecular sieve (4BMS) development hardware in support of future operations of the International Space Station (ISS) Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA). During 1998, testing of a MSFC 4BMS included operations with the 4BMS inlet air drawn directly from the cabin atmosphere instead of the baseline air source downstream of a Condensing Heat Exchanger (CHX), operating with high carbon dioxide (CO2) loading, and long duration operation in a power save mode. Additionally, testing with increased coolant water temperature was performed to determine effects on the systems CO2 removal performance.
Citation: Knox, J. and Howard, D., "Performance Enhancement, Power Reduction, and other Flight Concerns - Testing of the CO2 Removal Assembly for ISS," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-2111, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-2111. Download Citation
Author(s):
James C. Knox, David F. Howard
Affiliated:
ION Corp.
Pages: 10
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Carbon dioxide
Spacecraft
Heat exchangers
Water
Assembling
Energy conservation
Coolants
Hardware
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