|
Posted by hop on October 28, 2005, 2:38 pm
Please log in for more thread options
Paul Ciszek wrote:
show/hide quoted text
> I read a news item about the original air processing machine on the
> ISS having been broken for some time, and the astronauts depending
> on the older "oxygen candles". Did the origninal machine produce
> Oxygen by cracking Carbon Dioxide? If so, what was the chemical
> (electrochemical?) process involved?
The device you are talking about is called Elektron. When it works, it
gets oxygen from water using electrolysis. The water is normally
condensate collected from by the stations air conditioners. The H2 is
vented overboard.
show/hide quoted text
See here <http://www.jamesoberg.com/elektron2_tec.html> for some more
pictures and descriptive text.
CO2 is removed by two other devices (one US and one Russian) and dumped
overboard.
| 
XML Sitemap
> ISS having been broken for some time, and the astronauts depending
> on the older "oxygen candles". Did the origninal machine produce
> Oxygen by cracking Carbon Dioxide? If so, what was the chemical
> (electrochemical?) process involved?