FOST 2 upgrade with hollow-fiber CTA FO module and generation of osmotic agent for microorganism growth studies

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2016-07-10

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46th International Conference on Environmental Systems

Abstract

FOST 2 is an integrated membrane system that incorporates a forward osmosis subsystem and a reverse osmosis subsystem working in parallel. It has been designed as a post treatment system to process the effluent from the Membrane Aerated Biological Reactor developed at NASA Johnson Space Center. Its function is to remove dissolved solids residual such as ammonia and suspended solids, as well as to provide a physical barrier to microbial and viral contamination. A tubular CTA membrane module from HTI and a flat-sheet lipid-base membrane module from Porifera were integrated and tested on FOST 2 in the past, using both a bioreactor’s effluent and grey water as the feed solution. This paper documents the performance of FOST 2 after its upgrade with a hollow-fiber CTA membrane module from Toyobo, treating real black-water to generate the osmotic agent solution necessary to conduct growth studies of genetically engineered microorganism for the Synthetic Biological Membrane project.

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United States
NASA ARC
NASA Ames Research Center
303
ICES303: Physio-Chemical Life Support- Water Recovery & Management Systems- Technology and Process Development
Vienna, Austria
Jurek Parodi, Science and Technology Corporation, USA
Jaione Romero Mangado, Science and Technology Corporation, USA
Ofir Stefanson, Science and Technology Corporation, USA
Michael Flynn, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Hali Shaw, University of California, USA
David Beeler, Wyle Labs, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
The 46th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Vienna, Austria, USA on 10 July 2016 through 14 July 2016.

Keywords

forward osmosis, FOST, Toyobo, grey water, black water

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