NASA EPSCOR Center of sustainable technologies for water reclamation and reuse (CSTWR2)

An interdisciplinary competitive team has been assembled to work in collaboration with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to develop novel, energy-efficient technologies to recover, treat, and purify used water from limited sources in the spacecraft, but mainly, from body fluids (i.e. urine).   Three teams are established to address appropriate water impurities removal, while assuring water sanitation, quality and reliability for safe consumption as demanded by future manned missions. The project goals are to address appropriate water impurities removal and remediation, while assuring water sanitation, quality and reliability through biological monitoring and control.