scholarly journals Convergent Microbial Community Formation in Replicate Anaerobic Reactors Inoculated from Different Sources and Treating Ersatz Crew Waste

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1374
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Steinberg ◽  
Amanda J. Martino ◽  
Christopher H. House
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Plug Flow ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Reactor Performance ◽  
Anaerobic Reactors ◽  
Fixed Film ◽  
Different Sources

Future manned space travel will require efficient recycling of nutrients from organic waste back into food production. Microbial systems are a low-energy, efficient means of nutrient recycling, but their use in a life support system requires predictability and reproducibility in community formation and reactor performance. To assess the reproducibility of microbial community formation in fixed-film reactors, we inoculated replicate anaerobic reactors from two methanogenic inocula: a lab-scale fixed-film, plug-flow anaerobic reactor and an acidic transitional fen. Reactors were operated under identical conditions, and we assessed reactor performance and used 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing to determine microbial community formation. Reactor microbial communities were dominated by similar groups, but differences in community membership persisted in reactors inoculated from different sources. Reactor performance overlapped, suggesting a convergence of both reactor communities and organic matter mineralization. The results of this study suggest an optimized microbial community could be preserved and used to start new, or restart failed, anaerobic reactors in a life support system with predictable reactor performance.

Risks and economic security of the life support system of citizens in the field of housing and communal services

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Vladimir M. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Support System ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security System ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article analyzes the problems of the manifestation of risks of shadow and criminal activity in the life support system of citizens of the Russian Federation, the dissemination of which requires the development of effective measures to prevent and eliminate them. The most important issue is the formation of an effective economic security system with an emphasis on the new quality of life support for citizens of the Russian Federation in an adequate combination with the high growth rate of NTP in the Russian economy. The new technological structure emerging from the new achievements of scientific and technological progress involves the harmonization of the pace of scientific and technological development, combined with an adequate improvement in the quality of life support for citizens performing such achievements. Owing to this fact formation of new quality of the housing and communal services (HCS) as bases of life support of citizens becomes a prerequisite of increase in performance and intellectualization of human work. With this in mind, early recognition, prevention and elimination of risks of shadow and criminal activities in the housing and communal services system (housing and communal services) is considered as a significant mechanism to increase the effectiveness of the system of comfortable life support for citizens of the Russian Federation. The existing lag in the development of a high-quality and comfortable system for providing citizens of Russia on the basis of housing and communal services, the subject of which is the provision of quality and comfortable services, influenced by numerous risks of shadow and criminal influence, becomes a condition for intensifying economic development and increasing labor productivity on this basis. The need to develop and use modern scientific and technical achievements, especially in the field of digitalization, is emphasized in order to increase the efficiency of the economic security system of housing and communal services organizations based on innovative control mechanisms - internal control, audit, compliance control, taking into account financial investigations in order to prevent and eliminate the risks of shadow and criminal activities in the housing and communal services system.

Portable Life Support System: Current Status and Future Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-28
Author(s):  
Jingang Jiang ◽  
Yihao Chen ◽  
Xuefeng Ma ◽  
Yongde Zhang ◽  
Zhiyuan Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Life Support Systems ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
And Control ◽  
Further Development

Background: Portable life support system is used in the battlefield, disaster and in other special circumstances such as in space exploration, and underground survey to give the wounded a life support. The most dangerous period for the injured is the first hour after an injury, which is a crucial time for treatment. If the patient's vital signs were stabilized, more than 40% of the injured could be saved. The staff can efficiently complete the task if they get effective and stable vital signs during the operation. Therefore, in order to reduce the risk of disaster and battlefield mortality to improve operational safety and efficiency, it is necessary to study the portable life support system. Objective: The study aimed to provide an overview of recent portable life support system and its characteristics and design. Methods: This paper introduces the patents and products related to a portable life support system, and its characteristics and application. Results: This paper summarizes five kinds of portable life support systems which are box type, stretcher type, bed type, backpack type and mobile type. Moreover, the characteristics of different portable life support systems are analyzed. The paper expounds the problems of different types of portable life support systems and puts forward improvement methods to solve the problems. Finally, the paper points out the future development of the system. Conclusion: Portable life support system plays an increasingly important role in health care. In terms of the structure, function and control, further development and improvements are needed, along with the research on portable life support system.

First Lunar Outpost Extravehicular Life Support System Evaluation

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce C. Conger ◽  
Luis A. Trevino ◽  
B. Michael Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
System Evaluation ◽  
Life Support System

scholarly journals Development of a combined anaerobic and aerobic membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment and reclamation in terrestrial-based controlled ecological life support system

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 718-724
Author(s):  
Zhenmin Cheng ◽  
Yuansong Wei ◽  
Min Gao ◽  
Junya Zhang ◽  
Liangchang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Support System ◽  
Membrane Bioreactor ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Specific Energy Consumption ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Microbial Community Analysis ◽  
Trace Gas ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Physico Chemical

Abstract A novel wastewater treatment and reuse system (WTRS) combining an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) and an aerobic membrane bioreactor (MBR) with the design capacity of 115 L/d was developed for a terrestrial-based controlled ecological life support system (CELSS). Results clearly showed that the WTRS realized mineralization of organic compounds and reservation of nitrogenous nutrient, therefore converting the effluent into replenishment for the hydroponic system. Trace gas emission from the WTRS could meet requirements for the whole CELSS. Compared with physico-chemical processes, the specific consumables consumption of the WTRS was advantageous but its specific energy consumption is still in need of improvement. Results of microbial community analysis were consistent with the running state of the AnMBR and the MBR.

The Virtual Habitat – A tool for dynamic life support system simulations

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 2683-2707
Author(s):  
M. Czupalla ◽  
A. Zhukov ◽  
J. Schnaitmann ◽  
C. Olthoff ◽  
M. Deiml ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Life Support System

A possible NaCl pathway in the bioregenerative human life support system

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (7-10) ◽  
pp. 1031-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.I. Polonskiy ◽  
I.V. Gribovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Life Support System
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