The recently developed Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Subsystem (TIMES) offers a highly competitive approach to water recovery from waste fluids for future on-orbit stations such as the Space Operations Center. Low power, compactness and gravity insensitive operation are featured in this vacuum distillation subsystem that combines a hollow fiber membrane evaporator with a thermoelectric heat pump. The hollow fiber elements provide positive liquid/gas phase control with no moving parts other than pumps and an accumulator, thus solving problems inherent in other reclamation subsystem designs. In an extensive test program, over 850 hours of operation were accumulated during which time high quality product water was recovered from both urine and wash water at an average steady state production rate of 2.2 pounds per hour.
Thermoelectric Integrated Membrane Evaporation Water Recovery Technology
Sae Technical Papers
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1982
1982-02-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
Productivity , Vacuum , Gravity , Fibers , Fluids and secretions , Gases , Pumps , Water
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