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Item Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration (BIOWYSE)(48th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2018-07-08) Guarnieri, Vincenzo; Detsis, Emmanuel; Locantore, Ilaria; Lobascio, Cesare; Boscheri, Giorgio; Marchitelli, Giovanni; Simons, Richard; Pagan, JenniferControl of microbiological contamination within spacecraft is of huge importance for long-duration manned space missions: such systems must guarantee crew well-being, health, and subsistence. The development of materials and methods to prevent, monitor, and mitigate environmental microbial contamination and its harmful effects are thus required. Considering the application of such systems to spacecraft, possible solutions must be safe, automated, lightweight, reliable, efficient, and require minimal energy, consumables, maintenance, etc. The “Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration” (BIOWYSE) project focuses on the development and demonstration of a compact, integrated, and automated solution (hardware & software) to biocontamination control. The BIOWYSE system is designed to prevent, monitor, and mitigate the risk of microbiological contamination in water systems and humid surfaces onboard ISS and in future human space exploration missions. Automation and synergy of these processes lead to reduction in crew time, decreased energy requirements, procedure simplification, and additional safety measures. Prevention and real-time monitoring, together with an appropriate control system, can reduce the decontamination effort requirement and radically improve efficiency. The BIOWYSE system and its subsystems, modules, and operational modes are described in this paper.Item Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration (BIOWYSE) – Testing campaign results(49th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2019-07-07) Locantore, Ilaria; Boscheri, Giorgio; Guarnieri, Vincenzo; Marchitelli, Giovanni; Saverino, Antonio; Lobascio, CesareControl of microbiological contamination within spacecraft is of huge importance for long-duration manned space missions: such systems must guarantee crew well-being, health, and subsistence. The development of materials and methods to prevent, monitor, and mitigate environmental microbial contamination and its harmful effects are thus required. Considering the application of such systems to spacecraft, possible solutions must be safe, automated, lightweight, reliable, efficient, and require minimal energy, consumables, maintenance. This paper reports about BIOWYSE (Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration), a project that focuses on the development and demonstration of a compact, integrated, and automated solution (hardware & software) for biocontamination control. The BIOWYSE system is designed to prevent, monitor, and mitigate the risk of microbiological contamination in water systems and humid surfaces onboard ISS and in future human space exploration missions. Automation and synergy of these processes lead to reduction in crew time, decreased energy requirements, procedure simplification, and additional safety measures. Prevention and real-time monitoring, together with an appropriate control system, can reduce the decontamination effort requirement and radically improve efficiency. The BIOWYSE system design and testing campaign results are described in this paper.Item SCALISS: An European Tool for Automated Scaling of Life Support Systems(47th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2017-07-16) Boscheri, Giorgio; Guarnieri, Vincenzo; Chirico, Stefano; Zabel, Paul; Lasseur, ChristopheDesigning the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) for exploration missions to the interplanetary space is a complex task beginning from the definition of the needs (e.g. diet, safety, radiation level,..) up to the selection of technology possibilities. In this context a major issue is the influence of crew number and mission duration to the ECLSS design. These are the main reasons why during mission studies the design of the ECLSS system mostly starts from scratch. Uncertainties about requirements, functions and technologies most suitable for the mission lead to a high number of iterations before a baseline design can be achieved. The aim of the SCALISS study was to understand and investigate in ECLSS functionality, technologies and scalabilities in order to produce a robust initial design starting point for future Phase-A studies with an automated tool. The developed Java-based ECLSS sizing tool is described in this paper together with the validation case study results. The possible evolutions and interactions with the ALiSSE tool are also described.Item The EDEN ISS Rack-Like Plant Growth Facility(46th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2016-07-10) Boscheri, Giorgio; Lobascio, Cesare; Lamantea, Matteo Maria; Locantore, Ilaria; Guarnieri, Vincenzo; Schubert, DanielPlant cultivation in large-scale closed environments is challenging and several key technologies necessary for space-based plant production are not yet space-qualified or remain in early stages of development. The Horizon2020 EDEN ISS project aims at development and demonstration of higher plant cultivation technologies, suitable for near term deployment on the International Space Station (ISS) and from a long-term perspective, within Moon and Mars habitats. The EDEN ISS consortium, as part of the performed activities, has designed a plant cultivation system to have form, fit and function of an European Drawer Rack 2 (EDR II) payload, with a modularity that would allow its incremental installation in the ISS homonimous rack, occupying from one-quarter rack to the full system. The construction phase is started, and the developed system will be tested in a laboratory environment as well as at the highly-isolated German Antarctic Neumayer Station III, in a container-sized test facility to provide realistic mass flow relationships and interaction with a crewed environment. This paper describes the goals and system general design status of EDEN ISS ISPR plant growth facility.