Objective
Artificial life support systems are a unique instrument for the experimental and theoretical simulation of matter turnover processes for both human life beyond the biosphere and terrestrial applications. Currently all the world's leading space agencies and some other research centres are carrying out experiments on processes for closure of matter turnover in artificial life support systems (LSS).
One of the main obstacles in designing bioregenerative life support systems with a high degree of closedness is the lack of work on inclusion of the human exometabolites in intrasystem turnover. A major difficulty met in addressing this problem is NaCl recycling. The problem of NaCl inclusion in the mass exchange system by mainly biological methods has not yet been solved. Hence the basic thrust of the project's scientific work is the development of scientific knowledge and the creation of technologies for human solid and liquid waste inclusion in intrasystem mass exchange, with a special focus on NaCl.
The main scientific novelty of the project consists in the development of interdependent technologies ensuring that NaCl and components of human liquid and solid wastes are incorporated into intrasystem matter turnover of an experimental biological LSS. In the proposed project physical-chemical methods will be used in the first stages and will be of an auxiliary character.
A further project novelty is the scientific substantiation and formation of an effective photosynthesizing compartment made up of higher plants - halophytes - to include NaCl in matter turnover. This link will be based on the halophytes' ability to extract NaCl selectively from SLS where it is supplied with the human liquid wastes previously treated by physical-chemical methods. Halophyte inclusion in LSS is expected to facilitate the effective return to a human of NaCl accumulating in the edible biomass of haloaccumulators, or washed off from haloconductor surfaces.
Human solid waste together with plant waste will be included after processing in intrasystem matter turnover with the help of biological oxidation in a soil-like substrate. The work will be completed with the substantiation of the steady-state range of the mass exchange processes, and technological forecasting of further means to increase the closure degree of intrasystem matter turnover in experimental models of bioregenerative life support systems.
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CLERMONT-FERRAND
France
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