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Food Production and Solid Waste System for Advanced Life Support on Long-Term Space Missions (2005)
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Title: Food Production and Solid Waste System for Advanced Life Support on Long-Term Space Missions
Authors: A. Teixeira, J. Myre, B. Welt
Journal Name: SAE Technical Paper Series
Year of Publication: 2005
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Category: biosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/393
Web Link: https://folk.ntnu.no/skoge/prost/proceedings/aiche-2005/topical/pdffiles/T9/papers/499a.pdf
BoK Link: [[paper:393]]
Abstract
This paper describes further development of a bio-regenerative food and waste management systemconcept for long-term space travel. The conceptproposes a system by which sufficient food and fibercould be taken along for a six-person crew on a 3-yearround trip mission to Mars by lifting off with only a 6-month supply of pre-packaged shelf-stable food andfiber products on board (sufficient for one-way transit tothe planetary base). During residence time on theplanetary base, daily food production would includerepackaging and reprocessing a daily excess ofprepared shelf-stable ready-to-eat meals with recycledretort pouches that were accumulated during transit forthis purpose.Technical feasibility of such a system was addressedbeginning with selection of a specific realistic scenariothat could be supported with available data from recentNASA-funded research in space agriculture, advancedfood technology, and solid waste management. Thepaper reports on a preliminary attempt to track massbalances of daily food intake requirements from crewconsumption and metabolism, recovery of organicwastes, and bioconversion of those wastes and residuesto compost through anaerobic digestion for return toplant growth media
Title: Food Production and Solid Waste System for Advanced Life Support on Long-Term Space Missions
Authors: A. Teixeira, J. Myre, B. Welt
Journal Name: SAE Technical Paper Series
Year of Publication: 2005
Page Number:
Category: biosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/393
Web Link: https://folk.ntnu.no/skoge/prost/proceedings/aiche-2005/topical/pdffiles/T9/papers/499a.pdf
BoK Link: [[paper:393]]
Abstract
This paper describes further development of a bio-regenerative food and waste management systemconcept for long-term space travel. The conceptproposes a system by which sufficient food and fibercould be taken along for a six-person crew on a 3-yearround trip mission to Mars by lifting off with only a 6-month supply of pre-packaged shelf-stable food andfiber products on board (sufficient for one-way transit tothe planetary base). During residence time on theplanetary base, daily food production would includerepackaging and reprocessing a daily excess ofprepared shelf-stable ready-to-eat meals with recycledretort pouches that were accumulated during transit forthis purpose.Technical feasibility of such a system was addressedbeginning with selection of a specific realistic scenariothat could be supported with available data from recentNASA-funded research in space agriculture, advancedfood technology, and solid waste management. Thepaper reports on a preliminary attempt to track massbalances of daily food intake requirements from crewconsumption and metabolism, recovery of organicwastes, and bioconversion of those wastes and residuesto compost through anaerobic digestion for return toplant growth media