Life-support technology · Environmental Control & Life Support
Carbon Dioxide Removal
The carbon dioxide a crew exhales must be continuously removed from the cabin air. Systems use regenerable sorbents or amine beds to scrub it out, and increasingly to recover its oxygen rather than venting it overboard.
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- Member of groupEnvironmental Control & Life Support
- Part ofEnvironmental Control and Life Support System
- Associated withInternational Space Station
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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