ESA has been developing regenerative physicochemical air revitalisation technology for more than 20 years. The effort is now maturing into a flight demonstration experiment which is planned to be located in the Columbus module on ISS. The experiment shall be sized for a crew of three. It will comprise a CO2 concentration assembly, a Sabatier reactor and an electrolyser. The paper describes the adaptation of ARES to the available Columbus interfaces as well as ARES development status, performances, benefits to the ISS and operational agreements with ISS partners.
ARES - ESA's Regenerative Air Revitalisation Experiment on the International Space Station
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2008
2008-06-29
Conference paper
English
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