A total and biosafe liquefaction compartment for MELiSSA
Abstract
Envisaging long-duration space missions and settlements on the Moon or even on more distant planets means considering the production of food and the recycling of scarce, valuable chemical species from waste. ESA's MELiSSA project (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) is studying, in which five different compartments degrade waste into basic chemicals and then assimilate them into food, clean water and a breathable atmosphere. Crucial to the success of such a closed system is the absolute efficiency of the first compartment, in which all waste is biologically degraded into easily assimilable basic compounds. In order to ease this strenuous task and to ensure total and biosafe liquefaction of the waste, this MAP project is studying additional technologies that complement MELiSSA's waste degrading compartment.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005ESASP1290..248V
- Keywords:
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- Life Sciences;
- Liquefaction Compartment