Co2 Scrubbing on space stations and other closed systems
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:14 pm
Heya, I'm working on some game-systems for fully contained environments and have kindof hit a wall:
tldw: the player is supposed to start with the lowest possible solution and work his way up the tech ladder. so i built a co2 scrubber with a r0.4m l0.4m compartment that can be filled with charcoal or ssz-13 zeolite. charcoal however has such a low adsorption rate that i can't even get 1% of the co2 a single human produces out of the air with it. how do they do it on the space station? scale up? just use zeolite? other methods than adsorption?
tldw: the player is supposed to start with the lowest possible solution and work his way up the tech ladder. so i built a co2 scrubber with a r0.4m l0.4m compartment that can be filled with charcoal or ssz-13 zeolite. charcoal however has such a low adsorption rate that i can't even get 1% of the co2 a single human produces out of the air with it. how do they do it on the space station? scale up? just use zeolite? other methods than adsorption?