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Old September 27th 04, 11:22 AM
David Findlay
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Default How does Elektron work?

I know that it's a standard electrolysys system, but there must be some
degree of complexity in the whole system. I've also seen it mentioned that
there is a catalyst involved. Anyone care to explain how it works? Thanks,

David
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Old September 27th 04, 01:06 PM
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Read the first article in Google under oxygen electrolysis elektron.


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Old September 27th 04, 01:54 PM
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Thanks, but the server is in central Florida and is temporarily down!



"Revision" kentnobettsspam@techispdotcom wrote
Read the first article in Google under oxygen electrolysis elektron.



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Old September 27th 04, 02:45 PM
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Thanks, but the server is in central Florida and is temporarily down!


Why
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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Old September 27th 04, 10:18 PM
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David Findlay wrote in message ...
I know that it's a standard electrolysys system, but there must be some
degree of complexity in the whole system. I've also seen it mentioned that
there is a catalyst involved. Anyone care to explain how it works? Thanks,

David

Detailed technical document:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994026875.pdf
from rusty bartons excellent thread found he
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&threadm=slrncl9824.var.andrew. gray%40compsoc.dur.ac.uk&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dsci.space.history%26c2coff%3D1%26safe% 3Doff%26start%3D25

Less detail:
http://www.jamesoberg.com/elektron2_tec.html
http://www.spaceref.com/iss/ops/sm.l...port.book2.pdf
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Old September 27th 04, 10:48 PM
David Findlay
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Jim Oberg wrote:
Thanks, but the server is in central Florida and is temporarily down!


Ahhh so that's why I can't get into it. Thanks,

David
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Old September 27th 04, 10:49 PM
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Detailed technical document:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994026875.pdf
from rusty bartons excellent thread found he


Thanks, that just what I was after. Thanks,

David
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Old September 28th 04, 05:27 AM
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It was still available in Google cache. The server is up now. Adios
Hurricane Jeanne.

http://www.jamesoberg.com/elektron2_tec.html


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Old September 28th 04, 09:12 PM
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(hop) wrote:

Detailed technical document:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994026875.pdf

Fascinating tid bit.... This document implies that an improved
Elektron was planned, but was not (at the time of writing) available
to be baselined into ISS. Because of this, ISS was the be equipped
with a MIR unit that had been tweaked in hopes of improving
performance.

Are the current ISS units -1 or -2 designs?

D.
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Old September 28th 04, 10:57 PM
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Derek Lyons wrote:
Detailed technical document:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994026875.pdf


Fascinating tid bit.... This document implies that an improved
Elektron was planned, but was not (at the time of writing) available
to be baselined into ISS.


This dates from 1994. What i found interesting is that they already used the
name "Alpha" for the space station.

I am not sure of the total relevance of the document to what is actually on
board the ISS. It seemed to be more of a preliminary document comparing MIR-1
systems with those being considered for Freedom.

It is interesting that they mentioned the Mir-1 O2 generator as having shown
very good long term reliability. Also interesting that they mention that it is
not maintainable in space.

If the cores of the Mir O2 generator and Elektron on ISS are roughly the same,
then perhaps the problems on ISS arise from the new controls and sensors that
were put in as a result of moving the unit from a manual control to a computer
control with telemetry data being fed to computers etc etc.
 




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