OrbHab Paper
The Celss Breadboard Project: Plant Production (1991)
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Title: The Celss Breadboard Project: Plant Production
Authors: W. Knott
Journal Name: NASA N91-13849
Year of Publication: 1991
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Category: biosphere
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Abstract
I will describe NASA's Breadboard Project for the CELSS program. For those familiar with the Bread- board Project at Kennedy Space Center, it should bring you up to date on what has happened during the last year; for the others, it will be a short introduction to the project. The simplified schematic of a CELSS is shown in Figure 1. I start with the schematic to emphasize that we are taking a modular approach to construct- ing the CELSS Breadboard. We are researching each module in order to develop a data set for each one prior to its integration into the complete sys- tem. I will concentrate on the data being obtained from the Biomass Production Module or the Bio- mass Production Chamber. The other two primary modules, food processing and resource recovery or waste management, will be discussed only briefly. The crew habitat module will not be dis- cussed at all during this presentation. The primary goal of the Breadboard Project is to scale-up research data to an integrated system capable of supporting one person in order to estab- lish feasibility for the development and operation of a CELSS. Breadboard is NASA's first attempt at developing a large scale CELSS. Research em- phasis in our work over the past three years has been on the Biomass Production module. In late 1990 integration of the food processing and re- source recovery modules will be initiated. The goal is to have a complete functional system operational by 1993. The crew habitat module will only be simulated during the Breadboard Project.
Title: The Celss Breadboard Project: Plant Production
Authors: W. Knott
Journal Name: NASA N91-13849
Year of Publication: 1991
Page Number:
Category: biosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/227
Web Link: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19910004536/downloads/19910004536.pdf
BoK Link: [[paper:227]]
Abstract
I will describe NASA's Breadboard Project for the CELSS program. For those familiar with the Bread- board Project at Kennedy Space Center, it should bring you up to date on what has happened during the last year; for the others, it will be a short introduction to the project. The simplified schematic of a CELSS is shown in Figure 1. I start with the schematic to emphasize that we are taking a modular approach to construct- ing the CELSS Breadboard. We are researching each module in order to develop a data set for each one prior to its integration into the complete sys- tem. I will concentrate on the data being obtained from the Biomass Production Module or the Bio- mass Production Chamber. The other two primary modules, food processing and resource recovery or waste management, will be discussed only briefly. The crew habitat module will not be dis- cussed at all during this presentation. The primary goal of the Breadboard Project is to scale-up research data to an integrated system capable of supporting one person in order to estab- lish feasibility for the development and operation of a CELSS. Breadboard is NASA's first attempt at developing a large scale CELSS. Research em- phasis in our work over the past three years has been on the Biomass Production module. In late 1990 integration of the food processing and re- source recovery modules will be initiated. The goal is to have a complete functional system operational by 1993. The crew habitat module will only be simulated during the Breadboard Project.