Dive into plasmas for electrolysis, gas decomposition, climate change, and in situ resource utilization (ISRU) to produce oxygen, fuels, life support, and agriculture on Mars, Venus, Earth, and beyond. Lead author and speaker Vasco Guerra, from IST Uni de Lisboa shares team’s findings, journey, experiment results with Yttria reactor for ion conducting membrane, Dielectric barrier discharge DBD reactors,Fast ionisation waves(FIW), CO2 microwave plasma torch.
After testing in Martian composition & Pressure for CO2 decomposition, plasma enhanced solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) comparable to MOXIE yields 14g of O2 /hr for P=250W with 5kg 25x20x5cm payload @3.5g O2 per hour per kg with 13lb plasma reactor, which is 1/3weight of MOXIE and 6X higher values. Learn about how plasma can be utilised for gas conversion, static charge removal,Thrusters for space propulsion, and many markets on Earth
Link to study: Plasmas for in situ resource utilization on Mars: Fuels, life support, and agriculture
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0098011

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