Development of the Continuous-Fill Brine Evaporation Bag (BEB) SystemThe existing water recovery system on the International Space Station (ISS) is limited to 70 percent reclamation; consequently, long duration space missions are currently unfeasible due to the large quantity of water necessary to sustain the crew. The Brine Evaporation Bag (BEB) is a proposed system to supplement the existing water recovery system aboard the ISS and future deep space missions that can increase water recovery to 99 percent. The BEB project previously focused on the development of only the bag portion of the system. This paper focuses on the development of the BEB Evaporator. It will discuss the work to understand, optimize, and improve the entire BEB system while implementing a continuous-fill process. The results of that development and the advantages and limitations of the continuous-fill process will be presented.
Document ID
20190001331
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Delzeit, Lance (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Hayden, Anna (Wyle Labs., Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Felker, Caleb (Lockheed Martin Corp. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Shaw, Hali (University Affiliated Research Center (Calif. Univ. Santa Cruz) Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Beeler, David (Bionetics Corp. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Howard, Kevin (Wyle Labs., Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
March 8, 2019
Publication Date
July 10, 2016
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN33508ARC-E-DAA-TN30153ICES-2016-142
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2016)
Location: Vienna
Country: Austria
Start Date: July 10, 2016
End Date: July 14, 2016
Sponsors: International Conference On Environmental Systems, Inc.