Conceptual design of a bioregenerative life support system containing crops and silkworms

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 929-939

  Hu, Enzhu ^a   Bartsev, Sergey I ^b   Liu, Hong ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bioregenerative life support system; Design; Nutrition; Silkworm; Stoichiometric modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ANIMALS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CROPS; DESIGN; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LUNAR MISSIONS; MOON BASES; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRITION; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; POTABLE WATER; PROTEINS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ATMOSPHERE MANAGEMENT; BIOREGENERATIVE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; SILKWORM; STOICHIOMETRIC EQUATION; STOICHIOMETRIC MODELS; ULTRAVIOLET STERILIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 77249146834     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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