Publication Date:
2018-06-06
Description:
Fluid transport systems for spacecraft face acute challenges because of the persistently unfamiliar and unforgiving low-gravity environment. IRPI, LLC, has developed a contingency wastewater collection and processing device that provides passive liquid collation, containment, bubble separation, and droplet coalescence functions. The lightweight, low-volume, low-cost, and potentially disposable device may be used for subsequent sampling, metering, storage, disposal, and/or reuse. The approach includes a fractal wetting design that incorporates smart capillary fluidics. This work could have a broad impact on capillary-based fluid management on spacecraft and on Earth.
Keywords:
Technology Utilization and Surface Transportation; Man/System Technology and Life Support; Aerospace Medicine
Type:
An Overview of SBIR Phase 2 Physical Sciences and Biomedical Technologies in Space; 19; NASA/TM-2015-218857
Format:
application/pdf
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