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Electrolytic Removal of Nitrate From CELSS Crop Residues (1996)
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Title: Electrolytic Removal of Nitrate From CELSS Crop Residues
Authors: Guillermo Colon, John Sager
Journal Name: NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
Year of Publication: 1996
Page Number: 0
Category: technosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/87
Web Link: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19970006838
BoK Link: [[paper:87]]
Abstract
The controlled ecological life support system (CELSS) resource recovery system is a waste processing system using aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors to recover plant nutrients and secondary foods from inedible biomass. Crop residues contain significant amounts of nitrate which presents two problems: (1) both CELSS biomass production and resource recovery consume large quantities of nitric acid, (2) nitrate causes a variety of problems in both aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors. A technique was proposed to remove the nitrate from potato inedible biomass leachate and to satisfy the nitric acid demand using a four compartment electrolytic cell.
Title: Electrolytic Removal of Nitrate From CELSS Crop Residues
Authors: Guillermo Colon, John Sager
Journal Name: NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
Year of Publication: 1996
Page Number: 0
Category: technosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/87
Web Link: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19970006838
BoK Link: [[paper:87]]
Abstract
The controlled ecological life support system (CELSS) resource recovery system is a waste processing system using aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors to recover plant nutrients and secondary foods from inedible biomass. Crop residues contain significant amounts of nitrate which presents two problems: (1) both CELSS biomass production and resource recovery consume large quantities of nitric acid, (2) nitrate causes a variety of problems in both aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors. A technique was proposed to remove the nitrate from potato inedible biomass leachate and to satisfy the nitric acid demand using a four compartment electrolytic cell.