Project description DEENESFRITPL Designing food production for space exploration Longer human exploration missions to space will require large-scale reliable food production systems. Until now, only small-scale plant growth systems have been operated in space and still pose numerous challenges. The EU-funded SERENITY project will solve this by designing sustainable greenhouse modules (GHM) for space, using modelling, simulations and optimisation, with a systems engineering approach. The project will conduct a literature review of environmental constraints, criteria pertaining to GHM stability and reliability, and subsystem modelling. It will then generate designs using simulation tools and provide different recommendations for plant growth systems in different gravity settings. The goal is to develop systems that can allow human exploration to places like Mars. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective With a return of human exploration missions to the Moon in the mid-2020s and the preparation of more distant and longer-duration missions to Mars and further into the solar system, large-scale sustainable and reliable food production systems will need to be developed. Until now, only small-scale plant growth systems have been operated in space and they still pose numerous challenges. To be sustainable, greenhouse modules (GHM) for space need to use few resources, present low risk, be robust, reliable, and resilient. Therefore, this project aims at developing a methodology allowing space and terrestrial GHM design based on given constraints, using modelling, simulations, and optimization, with a process engineering and system engineering approach. The first objective is the analysis of constraints and objectives. This will be achieved after review and definition of environmental parameters constraints, criteria pertaining to GHM stability and reliability, and subsystem modelling, through extended literature review. The second objective is the systematic generation of competing designs using simulation tools based on constraints defined in objective 1. The interpretation of these results is the second part of this objective and is achieved with comparing different GHM designs, using criteria linked to used resources (energy, water, crew time), resources production (food, oxygen, water), as well as reliability, sustainability and risk. The third objective is the decision on a systematic approach to choose the best solution and provide recommendations for plant growth systems design in different gravity scenario. This project will fill the gap for the development of space and terrestrial food production systems and thus allow human exploration of Mars. It will allow Dr. Poulet to acquire the skills she needs to move her career forward and it will enable UCA Institut Pascal - GePEB to strengthen their international collaboration network with the space community. Fields of science natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesnatural satellitesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Keywords sustainability life-cycle reliability circular bioregenerative space reduced gravity life-support systems plant greenhouse module modelling simulation computational fluid dynamics Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships Coordinator UNIVERSITE CLERMONT AUVERGNE Net EU contribution € 195 914,88 Address 49 BD FRANCOIS MITTERRAND 63000 Clermont Ferrand France See on map Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data Partners (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 1015 Lausanne See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
