A comparison of microwave versus direct solar heating for lunar brick production

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Apr 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990vstn.nasa..428y&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Lewis Research Center, Vision-21: Space Travel for the Next Millennium p 428-435 (SEE N91-22139 14-12)

Computer Science

Bricks, Fabrication, Lunar Rocks, Microwaves, Solar Furnaces, Solar Heating, Economics, Heating, Regolith, Tradeoffs

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Two processing techniques considered suitable for producing bricks from lunar regolith are examined: direct solar heating and microwave heating. An analysis was performed to compare the two processes in terms of the amount of power and time required to fabricate bricks of various sizes. Microwave heating was shown to be significantly faster than solar heating for rapid production of realistic-size bricks. However, the relative simplicity of the solar collector(s) used for the solar furnace compared to the equipment necessary for microwave generation may present an economic tradeoff.

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