Prospects for using a full-scale installation for wet combustion of organic wastes in closed life support systems

Trifonov, Sergey V.; Kudenko, Yurii; Tikhomirov, Alexander A.

doi:10.1016/j.lssr.2015.08.003

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“…This recycling of waste is a central tenet of permaculture. Recycling of solid and fluid human waste may be implemented through wet oxidative combustion in hydrogen peroxide to which an AC electric field is applied within a ceramic reactor [ 24 ]. This approach is rapid and suited to automatic control yielding waste gas and mineralised waste solution.…”

Section: Waste Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplementing Closed Ecological Life Support Systems with In-Situ Resources on the Moon

Ellery

2021

Life

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In this review, I explore a broad-based view of technologies for supporting human activities on the Moon and, where appropriate, Mars. Primarily, I assess the state of life support systems technology beginning with physicochemical processes, waste processing, bioregenerative methods, food production systems and the robotics and advanced biological technologies that support the latter. We observe that the Moon possesses in-situ resources but that these resources are of limited value in closed ecological life support systems (CELSS)—indeed, CELSS technology is most mature in recycling water and oxygen, the two resources that are abundant on the Moon. This places a premium on developing CELSS that recycle other elements that are rarified on the Moon including C and N in particular but also other elements such as P, S and K which might be challenging to extract from local resources. Although we focus on closed loop ecological life support systems, we also consider related technologies that involve the application of biological organisms to bioregenerative medical technologies and bioregenerative approaches to industrial activity on the Moon as potential future developments.

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Section: Waste Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%