Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Subjects

Space vehicles -- Water-supply, Water reuse -- Techniques, Astronauts -- Health risk assessment

Abstract

The personal body-attached liquid liquidator (PBALL) is conceived as a passive, capillary-driven, contingency wastewater disposal device. In this contingency scenario, the airflow system on the NASA crew exploration vehicle is assumed to have failed, leaving only passive hardware and vacuum vent to dispose of wastewater. To meet these needs, the PBALL was conceived to rely on capillary action and urine wetting conditions from 0° < θadv ∼ 90°, be adaptable for both male and female use, collect and retain up to 1 L of urine, minimize splash-back, and allow continuous draining of the wastewater to vacuum while minimizing cabin air loss. A subscale PBALL test article, which was tested on NASA's reduced-gravity aircraft in April 2010, successfully demonstrated key components of this design.

Description

This paper was presented at the 40th International Conference on Environmental Systems, Barcelona, 2010. http://arc.aiaa.org/

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9343

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