A Chemical Containment Model for the General Purpose Work Station
Date Published: 1994-06-01
Paper Number:941286
DOI: 10.4271/941286
Citation:
Schmidt, G. and Flippen, A., "A Chemical Containment Model for the General Purpose Work Station," SAE Technical Paper 941286, 1994, doi:10.4271/941286.
Author(s):
Gregory K. Schmidt - NASA Headquarters, Flight Systems Div.
Alexis A. Flippen - University of Southern Colorado, NASA
Abstract:
Contamination control is a critical safety requirement imposed on experiments flying on board the Spacelab. The General Purpose Work Station, a Spacelab support facility used for life sciences space flight experiments, is designed to remove volatile compounds from its internal airpath and thereby minimize contamination of the Spacelab. This is accomplished through the use of a large, multi-stage filter known as the Trace Contaminant Control System. Many experiments planned for the Spacelab require the use of toxic, volatile fixatives in order to preserve specimens prior to post-flight analysis. The NASA-Ames Research Center SLS-2 payload, in particular, necessitated the use of several toxic, volatile compounds in order to accomplish the many inflight experiment objectives of this mission. A model was developed based on earlier theories and calculations which provides conservative predictions of the resultant concentrations of these compounds given various spill scenarios. This paper describes the development and application of this model.
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