CapiSorb Visible System

Overall view of the CapiSorb Visible System prototype with sorbent simulant liquid in N240 room 133B. The CapiSorb Visible System will be launched on SpaceX CRS-27 in March 2023 to the International Space Station to demonstrate a liquid sorbent-based system that leverages the advantages of liquid control through capillary action to remove carbon dioxide from crewed atmospheres.

The CapiSorb Visible System, shown here preflight, is used to study visco-capillary control and passive transport of liquid while simulating a fluid loop representative of a liquid carbon dioxide sorbent scrubber. The CapiSorb Visible System investigation demonstrates a liquid control using capillary forces, over a range of properties that are characteristic of liquids which absorb carbon dioxide. Image courtesy of NASA's Ames Research Center.

jsc2023e010170 (1/30/2023) --- Overall view of the CapiSorb Visible System prototype with sorbent simulant liquid in N240 room 133B. The CapiSorb Visible System will be launched on SpaceX CRS-27 in March 2023 to the International Space Station to demonstrate a liquid sorbent-based system that leverages the advantages of liquid control through capillary action to remove carbon dioxide from crewed atmospheres...The CapiSorb Visible System, shown here preflight, is used to study visco-capillary control and passive transport of liquid while simulating a fluid loop representative of a liquid carbon dioxide sorbent scrubber. The CapiSorb Visible System investigation demonstrates a liquid control using capillary forces, over a range of properties that are characteristic of liquids which absorb carbon dioxide. Image courtesy of NASA's Ames Research Center.

Photographer Dominic Hart
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