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Prompt:
Could this be the next closest step to "ultimate recycling" onboard a mars bound manned space mission?
Wikipedia description:
Technology Sketch:
Changing World Technologies (CWT)
Private Company founded in August 1997 by Brian S. Appel
Purpose: to develop and commercialize the "thermal depolymerization" technology AKA "thermal conversion process"
Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a process for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2003/An … 1may03.htm
Questions:
1. Will this process kill microbacteria living in the waste products onboard the life support module?
2. Could a proof of concept closed system be created with wastes being directed to the depolymer device and products from that device being redirected into fuel containers, water reverse-osmosis for drinking, and carbon solids containers?
3. Investigate how the output of such a device could be further used on a life support system onboard a spacecraft.
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