Potential ISRU of Lunar Regolith for Planetary Habitation Applications

Faierson, Eric J.; Logan, Kathryn V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27969-0_9

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“…A. Crawford, K. H. Joy, and M. Anand, 2014; E. J. Faierson and K. G. Logan, 2012). This synergy has the potential to enhance commercial space products and services, enable in-situ repairs, and reduce mission costs.…”

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Exploring space manufacturing: designing a lunar factory for space-bound products in the new space economy

Francesco,

Ettorre,

Acerbi

et al. 2024

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Exploring space manufacturing: designing a lunar factory for space-bound products in the new space economy

Francesco,

Ettorre,

Acerbi

et al. 2024

Proc. Des. Soc.

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“…On the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of manned mission landing on lunar surface, space agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans to restart manned missions for the exploration of outer space [ 2 – 6 ]. For feasible and sustainable space exploration, these habitats need to be built from available in situ resources on moon/Mars [ 7 – 11 ]. Within space lexicon, the term in situ resource utilization (ISRU) refers to any process that encourages processing of local resources found during exploration of extra-terrestrial habitats in order to reduce dependency on materials chaperoned from earth.…”

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“…Towards this end, various methodologies for consolidating regolith have been proposed. Fusing of regolith particles through laser-sintering [ 11 ], use of microwave irradiation for bonding [ 12 , 13 ], production of cast basalt [ 9 , 14 – 16 ], fabrication with lunar glass [ 17 , 18 ], creation of sulfur-based concrete [ 9 , 19 ], dry-mix/steam injection methods and various 3D printing methodologies [ 20 – 22 ] are examples of processes that have been proposed. Some of these approaches in more detail are discussed here.…”

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Microbial induced calcite precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants

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We demonstrate that Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) can be utilized for creation of consolidates of Martian Simulant Soil (MSS) and Lunar Simulant Soil (LSS) in the form of a ‘brick’. A urease producer bacterium, Sporosarcina pasteurii, was used to induce the MICP process for the both simulant soils. An admixture of guar gum as an organic polymer and NiCl2, as bio- catalyst to enhance urease activity, was introduced to increase the compressive strength of the biologically grown bricks. A casting method was utilized for a slurry consisting of the appropriate simulant soil and microbe; the slurry over a few days consolidated in the form of a ‘brick’ of the desired shape. In case of MSS, maximum strength of 3.3 MPa was obtained with 10mM NiCl2 and 1% guar gum supplementation whereas in case of LSS maximum strength of 5.65 Mpa was obtained with 1% guar gum supplementation and 10mM NiCl2. MICP mediated consolidation of the simulant soil was confirmed with field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetry (TG). Our work demonstrates a biological approach with an explicit casting method towards manufacturing of consolidated structures using extra-terrestrial regolith simulant; this is a promising route for in situ development of structural elements on the extra-terrestrial habitats.

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“…On the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of manned mission landing on lunar surface, space agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans to restart manned missions for the exploration of outer space [2][3][4][5][6]. For feasible and sustainable space exploration, these habitats need to be built from available in situ resources on moon/Mars [7][8][9][10][11]. Within space lexicon, the term in situ resource utilization (ISRU) refers to any process that encourages processing of local resources found during exploration of extra-terrestrial habitats in order to reduce dependency on materials chaperoned from Earth.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Towards this end, various methodologies for consolidating regolith have been proposed. Fusing of regolith particles through laser-sintering [11], use of microwave irradiation for bonding [12,13] cast basalt production [9,[14][15][16], lunar glass preparation [17,18], sulphurbased concrete preparation [9,19], dry-mix/steam injection methods and various 3D printing methodologies [20][21][22] are examples of processes that have been proposed. These methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.…”

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Microbial induced calcite precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants

Dikshit

Gupta

Dey

et al. 2021

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We demonstrate that Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) can be utilized for creation of consolidates of Martian Simulant Soil (MSS) and Lunar Simulant Soil (LSS) in the form of a 'brick'. A urease producer bacteria, Sporosarcina pasteurii, was used to induce the MICP process for the both simulant soils. An admixture of guar gum as an organic polymer and NiCl2, as bio- catalyst to enhance urease activity, was introduced to increase the compressive strength of the biologically grown bricks. A casting method was utilized for a slurry consisting of the appropriate simulant soil and microbe; the slurry over a few days consolidated in the form of a 'brick' of the desired shape. In case of MSS, maximum strength of 3.3 MPa was obtained with 10mM NiCl2 and 1% guar gum supplementation whereas in case of LSS maximum strength of 5.65 MPa was obtained with 1% guar gum supplementation and 10mM NiCl2. MICP mediated consolidation of the simulant soil was confirmed with field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Our work demonstrates a biological approach with an explicit casting method towards manufacturing of consolidated structures using extra-terrestrial regolith simulant; this is a promising route for in situ development of structural elements on the extra-terrestrial habitats.

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Potential ISRU of Lunar Regolith for Planetary Habitation Applications

Cited by 11 publications

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Exploring space manufacturing: designing a lunar factory for space-bound products in the new space economy

Exploring space manufacturing: designing a lunar factory for space-bound products in the new space economy

Microbial induced calcite precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants

Microbial induced calcite precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants

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