The IATCS coolant has experienced a number of anomalies in the time since the US Lab was first activated on Flight 5A in February 2001. These have included: 1) a decrease in coolant pH, 2) increases in inorganic carbon, 3) a reduction in phosphate concentration, 4) an increase in dissolved nickel and precipitation of nickel salts, and 5) increases in microbial concentration. These anomalies represent some risk to the system, have been implicated in some hardware failures and are suspect in others. The ISS program has conducted extensive investigations of the causes and effects of these anomalies and has developed a comprehensive program to remediate the coolant chemistry of the on-orbit system as well as provide a robust and compatible coolant solution for the hardware yet to be delivered. This paper presents a status of the coolant stability over the past year as well as results from destructive analyses of hardware removed from the on-orbit system and the current approach to coolant remediation.


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    Titel :

    ISS Internal Active Thermal Control System (IATCS) Coolant Remediation Project - 2006 Update


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Holt, Mike (Autor:in) / Morrison, Russell H. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2006



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    17.07.2006




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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