The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) maintains an active interest in
the environmental conditions associated with living and working in spacecraft and …

Water recovery is an essential capability for long-term space missions because potable
water is a vital resource. Wastewater, especially human urine, contains mineral salts that …

Evaporators with a rotating surface (a disk or a cone) are used for the concentration of
liquids in the food, pharmaceutical industries and bioindustry. They are also relevant for …

Humidity condensate collected and processed in-flight is an important component of a space
station drinking water supply. Water recovery systems in general are designed to handle …

Twenty-nine recycled water, eight stored (ground-supplied) water, and twenty-eight humidity
condensate samples were collected on board the Mir Space Station during the Phase One …

In the report the works on the study on vaporization and condensation, the methods of their
prediction in the distillers with rotating heat exchanging surfaces, development of the …

The paper discusses the 13.5 year flight operation experience of the orbiting space station
Mir's water supply system (WSS) comprising a regenerative system and a water storage …

Providing astronauts with clean water is one of the main problems for the life support system
on the International Space Station and for deep space missions. Centrifugal distillation is …

The article describes the main results of the development and testing of a multistage
centrifugal vacuum distillation (MCVD) system with a thermoelectric heat pump (THP). For …

ABSTRACT A selection of a distillation subsystem with a rotary multistage vacuum distiller
(RMVD) and a heat pump (HP) for the system for water reclamation from urine for the …