Lunar resource utilization: Development of a reactor for volatile extraction from regolith

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kleinhenz, Julie E ^a,b   Sacksteder, Kurt R ^b   Nayagam, Vedha ^c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c National Center for Space Exploration Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACT DESIGNS; ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE; IN-SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; LOADING AND UNLOADING; LUNAR REGOLITH; LUNAR RESOURCE UTILIZATION; NASA GLENN; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTIC ROVERS; UNIFORM HEATING; VIBRO-FLUIDIZATION;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; HEATING; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; OXYGEN; UNLOADING;

IN SITU PROCESSING;

EID: 77958594380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Feldman, W. C., et al. (2001), Evidence for Water Ice Near the Lunar Poles, J. Geophys. Res., Planets 106, #E10, 23232 - 23252.
2. Nayagam, V and Sacksteder, K. "A Vibrofluidized Reactor for Resource Extraction from Lunar Regolith," STAIF 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2006.
3. Nayagam, V and Sacksteder, K.."Resonant Heat Transfer in a Vibrofluidized Reactor with Lunar Regolith Simulant," STAIF 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2008 (to be published).
4. McKay, D.S., Carter, J.L, Boles, W.W., Allen, C.C, and Allton, J.H. "JSC1: A New Lunar Soil Simulant." Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space IV, ASCE, 1994. pp. 857-866.