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Spacecraft Trace Contaminant Control System

Interactive 3D simulator of a spacecraft cabin's trace contaminant control loop: tune crew size, airflow and catalytic-oxidizer temperature, watch the charcoal bed saturate and the cabin VOC level track against a SMAC-style compliance limit.

Space & Astronomy3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
space-life-support-organizational-structure ↗ Open standalone

Every crewed cabin off-gasses trace volatile organics from plastics, adhesives, coatings and crew metabolism, and this simulator models the two-stage air treatment loop that keeps them below safety limits: a charcoal adsorption bed that loads and eventually saturates, and a high-temperature catalytic oxidizer that burns the lighter gases the charcoal can't hold. Tune crew size, airflow rate and oxidizer temperature and watch a live 3D recirculation loop, a Langmuir-style bed-loading model and Arrhenius oxidation kinetics drive the cabin's trace-contaminant concentration up or down against a SMAC-style compliance limit — then press regenerate to desorb the bed to vacuum, exactly as real ECLSS charcoal canisters are cycled.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D simulator of a spacecraft cabin's trace contaminant control loop: tune crew size, airflow and catalytic-oxidizer temperature, watch the charcoal bed saturate and the cabin VOC level track against a SMAC-style compliance limit.

spacecraftlife-supportECLSSair-qualitychemistryengineering

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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