Elementary Design Guidelines for CO2 Scrubbing with LiOH.
Abstract
The removal of carbon dioxide from closed-cycle gaseous environments is essential to keeping people alive in an environment such as a submarine, a gas saturation habitat on the floor of the ocean, or a diver using closed-circuit UBAs. If the CO2 were not removed from these environments, its concentration would soon rise to toxic and lethal proportions. The removal of CO2 from these environments is commonly referred to as CO2 scrubbing and its purpose is to lower the CO2 concentrations to physiologically acceptable levels. This technical manual contains a brief outline of preliminary laboratory work leading up to NAVCOASTSYSCEN's investigation of LiOH for scrubbing CO2, theoretical considerations of the reaction of CO2 with LiOH, a description of the procedure and apparatus used to collect the LiOH-CO2 scrubber data, elementary design equations to predict canister efficiency, an example problem using results presented earlier in the manual, and practical considerations concerning the theoretical design of CO2 scrubbers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA168850
Entities
People
- Daniel B. Post