Hello everybody, I would like to talk a little bit about the MELISSA project, is everyboy familiar with it ?
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Melissa
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Now thats a 'Can Do' mission accomplishing attitude way of problemsolving ‘getting it done' doing things
Now thats chief engineering thinking
Now thats Star-Fleet kind of Designing Developing
One Small Step towards real-life Food_Replicators
One GI.ant Leap towards living bioenvironments ecohabitats Life~Support systems
Way to go Academy Sciences grouppurr(s)
Make it so
Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline
Thomas,
I am glad you posted this invitation to discuss MELISSA. Yes, I am familiar with it.
MELISSA is a toolset that ESA created to design and analyze Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS). Now it appears that some users have found ways to use MELISSA to model Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) and Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSS).
NASA developed a comparable tool called ALSSAT(Advanced Life Support System Analysis Tool). It does much of what MELISSA does, plus Crew Systems Division at JSC has published the results of many of their analyses over the past two decades. One key difference between ALSSAT and MELISSA appears to be that there are people using Melissa to try to model better environmental or agricultural systems for use on Earth, but I am not aware of anyone using ALSSAT to do that. However, I can ask the folks at JSC if they are aware of comparable work with ALSSAT. Meanwhile, I will take my collection of ALSSAT reports and post them on Space Decentral, although I am not sure that Spaceship Earth is the best place since all those studies address life support in space.
Another apporach to which I can refer you is the Water Walls project, which proposed to use forward osmosis membranes plus algae and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) to perform life support functions. Those papers are available on the Spacearchitect.org bibliography page. The Water Walls Project is in hiatus, but I am hoping to reactivate it in the next year.
Marc
Flynn, Michael T.; Delzeit, Lance; Gormly, Sherwin; Hammoudeh, Mona; Shaw, Hali; Polonsky, Alex; Howard, Kevin; Howe, A. Scott; Soler, Monica; Chambliss, Joe (2011 July). Habitat Water Wall for Water, Solids, and Atmosphere Recycle and Reuse (AIAA 2011-5018). 41st International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Portland, Oregon, USA, 17-21 July 2011. Reston, Virginia, USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. http://spacearchitect.org/pubs/AIAA-2011-5018.pdf
Cohen, Marc M.; Flynn, Michael T.; Matossian, Renée L. (2012 May). Water Walls Architecture: Massively Redundant and Highly Reliable Life Support for Long Duration Exploration Missions (GLEX-2012.10.1.9x12503). Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), Washington, DC, USA, 22-24 May 2012. Paris, France: International Astronautical Federation. http://spacearchitect.org/pubs/GLEX-2012.10.1.9x12503.pdf
Flynn, Michael T.; Soler, Monica; Shull, Sara; Broyan, James Lee, Jr.; Chambliss, Joe; Howe, A. Scott; Gormly, Sherwin; Hammoudeh, Mona; Shaw, Hali; Howard, Kevin (2012 July). Forward Osmosis Cargo Transfer Bag (AIAA 2012-3599). 42nd International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), San Diego, California, USA, 15-19 July 2012. Reston, Virginia, USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. http://spacearchitect.org/pubs/AIAA-2012-3599.pdf
Cohen, Marc M.; Matossian, Renée L.; Mancinelli, Rocco L.; Flynn, Michael T. (2013 July). Water Walls Life Support Architecture (AIAA 2013-3517). 43rd International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Vail, Colorado, USA, 14-18 July 2013. Reston, Virginia, USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. http://spacearchitect.org/pubs/AIAA-2013-3517.pdf
Cohen, Marc M.; Matossian, Renée L.; Lévy, François; Flynn, Michael (2014 July). Water Walls Life Support Architecture System Overview (ICES-2014-025). 44th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Tucson, Arizona, USA, 13-17 July 2014. Lubbock Texas, USA: Texas Tech University.
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/59607/ICES-2014-025.pdf
Miller, Jack; Cohen, Marc M. (2014 July). Water Walls Radiation Shielding: Preliminary Beam Testing of Ersatz Solid Waste Simulant (ICES-2014-026). 44th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Tucson, Arizona, USA, 13-17 July 2014. Lubbock Texas, USA: Texas Tech University.
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/59718/ICES-2014-26.pdf
