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RedWater: A Rodwell System to Extract Water from Martian Ice Deposits

机译:RedWater:从火星冰沉积物中提取水的罗德韦尔系统

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The ability to mine ice water in situ is of vital importance to enable future manned exploration of the solar system. In the past decade, orbital measurements have revealed that a third of the Martian surface contains shallow ground ice. Mars reconnaissance orbiter (MRO) shallow subsurface radar (SHARAD) data indicates the presence of debris-covered glaciers as well as buried ice sheets in the Arcadia Planitia (30°N-5°N) that are up to 170 m thick, consist of nearly pure ice, and are covered by at most 20 m of overburden. This data supports the implementation of two proven terrestrial technologies-coiled tube (CT) drilling and a Rodriguez well (RodWell)-for drilling and water extraction on Mars. Honeybee's RedWater system combines these two technologies into one by first using a CT drilling approach to create a hole, and then, once the hole is made to depth, using the coiled tubing left in the hole as a conduit for water extraction. Models for system performance in this mode have been refined from a combination of U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) research, data collected from Antarctic RodWells, and Honeybee testing. Honeybee plans to validate RedWater's mechanism designs and extraction models through thermal-vacuum testing to TRL5 in 2020.
机译:在原地开采冰水的能力对于未来载人探索太阳系至关重要。在过去的十年里,轨道测量显示火星表面三分之一的区域含有浅层的地面冰。火星勘测轨道器(MRO)浅层地下雷达(SHARAD)数据表明,在阿卡迪亚平原(30°N-5°N)存在着覆盖着碎片的冰川以及埋在地下的冰盖,厚达170米,由几乎纯冰组成,覆盖着最多20米的覆盖层。这些数据支持两项经验证的地面技术——螺旋管钻井(CT)和罗德里格斯井(Rodriguez well)——在火星上钻井和取水。Honeybee的RedWater系统将这两种技术结合在一起,首先使用CT钻孔方法来创建一个孔,然后,一旦钻孔达到深度,使用留在孔中的连续油管作为取水管道。这种模式下的系统性能模型是根据美国陆军寒冷地区研究与工程实验室(CRREL)的研究、从南极罗德韦尔收集的数据以及蜜蜂试验的组合而完善的。蜜蜂计划在2020年通过TRL5的热真空测试来验证RedWater的机制设计和提取模型。

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