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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Methane scrubber
Hi Warren,
thanks for the reply. I'm just researching submarine life support requirements at present. I had thought one of the list members had mentioned this as areq for their sub (multiday missions).
In my research i have been hitting NASA sites pretty heavily - especially those related to long mission closed system life support (eg the mars mission), and it was certainly an issue for them Flatulence may not be a problem (unless i had a lot of vegetarian passengers hahah), and this is one place i am seeking advice. is it an issue, or at what mission length does it need to be factored in.
I am also interested in methane removal on another unrelated project and i thought this group may have some expertise.
thx in advance
peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sep 10, 2003 10:57 AM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Methane scrubber
Methane? The scrubber technology I have played with
won't remove methane. Carbon Monoxide and Carbon
Dioxide. Why are you concerned about methane? :)
Warren.
--- peter mckellar <mckellar@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have only seen discussion on this group for
> CO2/Methane scrubbers, with no real specifics.
>
> I've been assuming that the CO2 scrubber also
> intrinsicly scrubs methane (indisciminately), is
> this the case or are they two different specialised
> scrubbers?
>
> Is it possible to easily separate the methane from
> the CO2?
>
> Also, I have read of a lithium hydroxide (?)
> scrubber that is a reversible process, allowing the
> compound to be 'cleaned' and reused. Does anyone
> have any experience with this and able to comment on
> its effectiveness?
>
> thx
> peter
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