Publication Date:
2013-08-31
Description:
Melting and electrolyzing lunar silicates yields oxygen gas and potentially can be practiced in situ to produce oxygen. With the present experiments conducted with simulant oxides at 1425-1480 C, it was ascertained that oxygen can be obtained anodically at feasible rates and current efficiencies. An electrolysis cell was operated with platinum anodes in a sealed vessel, and the production of gas was monitored. In these electrolysis experiments, stability of anodes remained a problem, and iron and silicon did not reduce readily into the liquid silver cathode.
Keywords:
INORGANIC AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Type:
Arizona Univ., NASA Space Engineering Research Center for Utilization of Local Planetary Resources; 10 p
Format:
application/pdf
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