A glow-discharge can be sustained in ambient Mars atmosphere, resulting in the dissociation of carbon dioxide molecules into carbon monoxide and oxygen. If the glow-discharge zone is maintained adjacent to a silver permeation membrane, atomic oxygen, produced by the discharge, can be separated from the other species. Experiments have been conducted to determine the behavior of glow-discharge enhanced oxygen production over a range of temperatures at Mars ambient pressure, in order to assess this approach as a possible low-temperature alternative to mechanical filtration, collection, compression and heating of Mars atmosphere with subsequent electrochemical separation.
Glow Discharge Techniques for the Production and Acquisition of Oxygen from the Martian Atmosphere
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 1994
01.06.1994
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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