SBIR/STTR Research Award
RADIATIVE METHODS FOR A 'BUTTONED-UP' MANNED DEEP BASE
Award amount
$67,814Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Aqua-magnetics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
IN A "BUTTON-UP" MANNED DEEP BASE ALL OPERATIONS MUST BE SELFCONTAINED AND INTERNAL POWERED. THE ELECTRO-RADIATIVE DECONTAMINATIONSYSTEM DEVELOPED BY PERSONNEL OF AQUA-MAGNETICS, INC. HAS PRODUCED POTABLE WATER FROM RAW HUMAN SEWAGE. NOT ONLY ARE BACTERIA, VIRUS, AND SPORES KILLED BUT TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE BROKEN INTO COMPONENT ELEMENTS. A COMPUTERIZED STATISTICAL COMPARISON WILL BE MADE OF DATA OBTAINED FROM SEVEN YEARS OF TESTING THE ELECTRO-RADIATIVE DECONTAMINATION SYSTEM AND DATA FROM FOUR OTHER ADVANCED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS. THESE COMPARATIVE SYSTEMS WILL BE REVERSE OSMOSIS, ION EXCHANGE, ELECTRON BOMBARDMENT, AND MEMBRANE FILTRATION WITH SUPERHYPO-CHLORIN-ATION. AIMS OF THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WILL BE TO DETERMINE THE MOST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING WASTE WATER FOR RE-USE. COMBINATIONS OF THE ABOVE STATED SYSTEMS WILL ALSO BE EVALUATED. AN OPTIMUM SYSTEM DESIGN WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR THE PURIFICATION OF WASTE WATER IN A "BUTTONED-UP" MANNED DEEP BASE, BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE COMPUTERIZED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS.
Technology keywords
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