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CELSS engineering parameters

Abstract

The most important Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) engineering parameters are, in order of decreasing importance, manpower, mass, and energy. The plant component is a significant contributor to the total system equivalent mass. In this report, a generic plant component is described and the relative equivalent mass and productivity are derived for a number of instances taken from the KSC CELSS Breadboard Project data and literature. Typical specific productivities (edible biomass produced over 10 years divided by system equivalent mass) for closed systems are of the order of 0.2.

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Drysdale, Alan, Sager, John, Wheeler, Ray, Fortson, Russ, Chetirkin, Peter. 1993-01-01. CELSS engineering parameters. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950058772

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