A Combined Modeling and Experimental Approach for Achieving a Simplified Closed Ecosystem

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In CELSS both biological and physico-chemical processes have to be used to support the main needs of the crews and to minimize the re-supply of food and air from Earth. The basic idea is to create a complete food chain (an artificial ecosystem), beginning from the crew, with its wastes, and returning to the crew to supply it with food and air. Two main other steps of this food chain are a waste treatment process and a biomass production including higher plants. We set up the connection of these key modules, which we called ECLAS (Ecosystème Clos Artificiel Simplifié). A growth chamber containing higher plants is connected to a continuous supercritical water oxidation reactor, that converts the harvested biomass into carbon dioxide and enables the photosynthesis of the canopy. To achieve a stable coupling through optimized regulations between the modules, we programmed a modular numerical simulation of the system, in order to assess the involved fluxes and to constrain the last degrees of freedom of the experimental system already built. Simulation results and the first experimental results are here compared.

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