Under a NASA-sponsored technology development project, a multi-disciplinary team consisting of industry, academia, and government organizations led by Hamilton Sundstrand is developing an amine based humidity and carbon dioxide (CO2) removal process and prototype equipment for Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) applications. This system employs thermally linked amine sorbent beds operating as a pressure swing adsorption system, using the vacuum of space for regeneration. The prototype hardware was designed based on a two fault tolerant requirement, resulting in a single system that could handle the metabolic water and carbon dioxide load for a crew size of six. Two, full scale prototype hardware sets, consisting of a linear spool valve, actuator and amine sorbent canister, have been manufactured, tested, and subsequently delivered to NASA JSC. This paper presents the design configuration and the pre-delivery performance test results for the CAMRAS hardware.
Development Status of the Carbon Dioxide and Moisture Removal Amine Swing-bed (CAMRAS)
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2007
2007-07-09
Conference paper
English
Performance tests , Carbon dioxide , Valves , Pressure , Vacuum , Hardware , Research and development , Humidity , Water
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