Concepts for Food Processing for Lunar and Planetary Stations

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Jean, author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (1996-07-08 : Monterey, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1996

Summary:

Most work on food production for long-duration missions has focused either on biomass production or nutritional modeling. Food processing, while not a basic life support technology, has the potential to significantly affect both life support system performance and the crew's quality of life.Food processing includes the following tasks:Questions to be answered in design of a food processing system include:The authors review the requirements for food processing in an ALS and present a conceptual plan for processing locally produced edible biomass into a palatable and diverse menu, while minimizing equipment, consumables, mass and manpower requirements. Our chosen baseline was a 4-person lunar crew consuming a low-fat CELSS diet with 15% of calories supplied from Earth, but the concept may be adapted to any scenario with sufficient gravitational force (or centrifugal equivalent) to support conventional food processing techniques. Rather more changes would be needed for operation in a weightless environment

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Publisher Number:

961415

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Restricted for use by site license