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Plant Bioregenerative Life Supports: The Italian CAB Project (2007)
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Title: Plant Bioregenerative Life Supports: The Italian CAB Project
Authors: Cesare Lobascio, Matteo Lamantea, Vittorio Cotronei, Barbara Negri, Stefania De Pascale, Albino Maggio, Maria Foti, Sergio Palumberi
Journal Name: Journal of Plant Interactions
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Number: 125
Category: biosphere
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Web Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17429140701549793?needAccess=true#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xNzQyOTE0MDcwMTU0OTc5Mz9uZWVkQWNjZXNzPXRydWVAQEAw
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Abstract
The Bioregenerative Life Support program CAB (Controllo Ambientale Biorigenerativo) is a key element of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Medicine & Biotechnology scientific program, set forth in the ASI Activity Plan 2006–2008. The CAB program started in October 2006, under the prime partnership of Thales Alenia Space Italia, with a feasibility study of a controlled biological system, allowing the regeneration of resources and the production of food for life support in long duration missions. Main constituents of the CAB program are: (a) Higher plants as basic elements for food and oxygen production, CO2 regeneration and water purification via the photosynthetic and leaf transpiration processes, and (b) biological & physico-chemical systems for environmental control, monitoring, power & data distribution, etc. The sectors of technological and scientific concern are practically all the ones typical for life support systems in the frame of long duration human missions; i.e., food production, in particular via the cultivation of higher plants, and food management; air regeneration (production of O2, removal of CO2, trace gas control); water regeneration (urine processing, gray water processing, potable water management); solid waste processing; resources allocation and storage; control of environmental conditions (Thermal-hygrometric, light, pressure, radiation, etc).
Title: Plant Bioregenerative Life Supports: The Italian CAB Project
Authors: Cesare Lobascio, Matteo Lamantea, Vittorio Cotronei, Barbara Negri, Stefania De Pascale, Albino Maggio, Maria Foti, Sergio Palumberi
Journal Name: Journal of Plant Interactions
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Number: 125
Category: biosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/154
Web Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17429140701549793?needAccess=true#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xNzQyOTE0MDcwMTU0OTc5Mz9uZWVkQWNjZXNzPXRydWVAQEAw
BoK Link: [[paper:154]]
Abstract
The Bioregenerative Life Support program CAB (Controllo Ambientale Biorigenerativo) is a key element of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Medicine & Biotechnology scientific program, set forth in the ASI Activity Plan 2006–2008. The CAB program started in October 2006, under the prime partnership of Thales Alenia Space Italia, with a feasibility study of a controlled biological system, allowing the regeneration of resources and the production of food for life support in long duration missions. Main constituents of the CAB program are: (a) Higher plants as basic elements for food and oxygen production, CO2 regeneration and water purification via the photosynthetic and leaf transpiration processes, and (b) biological & physico-chemical systems for environmental control, monitoring, power & data distribution, etc. The sectors of technological and scientific concern are practically all the ones typical for life support systems in the frame of long duration human missions; i.e., food production, in particular via the cultivation of higher plants, and food management; air regeneration (production of O2, removal of CO2, trace gas control); water regeneration (urine processing, gray water processing, potable water management); solid waste processing; resources allocation and storage; control of environmental conditions (Thermal-hygrometric, light, pressure, radiation, etc).