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Water Recuperation from Regolith at Martian, Lunar & Micro-Gravity during Parabolic Flight
| العنوان: | Water Recuperation from Regolith at Martian, Lunar & Micro-Gravity during Parabolic Flight |
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| المؤلفون: | Farina, D., Machrafi, Hatim, Queeckers, P., Minetti, C., Iorio, C.S. |
| المصدر: | Aerospace, 11 (6) (2024) |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | ice-regolith interaction, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), micro-gravity experiments, parabolic flight simulation, regolith hydration, space mining, space resources, substrate condensation efficiency, surface properties and water recovery, thermal condensation processes, water extraction technologies, Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences, Space science, astronomy & astrophysics, Physique, chimie, mathématiques & sciences de la terre, Aérospatiale, astronomie & astrophysique |
| الوصف: | Recent discoveries of potential ice particles and ice-cemented regolith on extraterrestrial bodies like the Moon and Mars have opened new opportunities for developing technologies to extract water, facilitating future space missions and activities on these extraterrestrial body surfaces. This study explores the potential for water extraction from regolith through an experiment designed to test water recuperation from regolith simulant under varying gravitational conditions. The resultant water vapor extracted from the regolith is re-condensed on a substrate surface and collected in liquid form. Three types of substrates, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and grooved, are explored. The system’s functionality was assessed during a parabolic flight campaign simulating three distinct gravity levels: microgravity, lunar gravity, and Martian gravity. Our findings reveal that the hydrophobic surface demonstrates the highest efficiency due to drop-wise condensation, and lower gravity levels result in increased water condensation on the substrates. The experiments aimed to understand the performance of specific substrates under lunar, Martian, and microgravity conditions, providing an approach for in-situ water recovery, which is crucial for establishing economically sustainable water supplies for future missions. To enhance clarity and readability, in this paper, “H2O” will be referred to as “water”. © 2024 by the authors. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 article peer reviewed |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85197170244&doi=10.3390%2faerospace11060475&partnerID=40&md5=1647453ca9d9b57bcd2b7358fe1be121; urn:issn:0001-9321 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/aerospace11060475 |
| URL الوصول: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/324731 |
| Rights: | open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsorb.324731 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ORBi |
| DOI: | 10.3390/aerospace11060475 |
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