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LEGO mini/microbuild: CO2 scrubber for NASA spacesuit xEMU
Made the carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber of the NASA Artemis Spacesuit with LEGO bricks.
Inside a spacesuit, as an astronaut continue to work, CO2 would build up. To prevent CO2 buildup, the CO2 scrubber beads are used. The gas goes through the bead bed and CO2 molecules (and humidity) are adsorbed/filtered. The beads can be regenerated by being exposed to space vacuum.
There are actually 2 beds inside the assembly (shown photos). When one is doing the filtering job, the other is exposed to space vacuum to desorb CO2.
This lego build is based on the real component published in the literature (Chullen et al., ICES-2015-313).
This is one of the microbuilds that populate the exploration primary life support system (xPLSS, backpack).
Please check out and vote for the entire spacesuit lego ideas entry I made:
ideas.lego.com/projects/4b24ba08-2d51-4709-80c2-3469be59c292
Thank you for your support and sharing!
LEGO mini/microbuild: CO2 scrubber for NASA spacesuit xEMU
Made the carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber of the NASA Artemis Spacesuit with LEGO bricks.
Inside a spacesuit, as an astronaut continue to work, CO2 would build up. To prevent CO2 buildup, the CO2 scrubber beads are used. The gas goes through the bead bed and CO2 molecules (and humidity) are adsorbed/filtered. The beads can be regenerated by being exposed to space vacuum.
There are actually 2 beds inside the assembly (shown photos). When one is doing the filtering job, the other is exposed to space vacuum to desorb CO2.
This lego build is based on the real component published in the literature (Chullen et al., ICES-2015-313).
This is one of the microbuilds that populate the exploration primary life support system (xPLSS, backpack).
Please check out and vote for the entire spacesuit lego ideas entry I made:
ideas.lego.com/projects/4b24ba08-2d51-4709-80c2-3469be59c292
Thank you for your support and sharing!