title: [Choice of a method and a type of device for water decontamination and warming within physical-chemical life support systems].
abstract: The review has been undertaken within project Mars-500 supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences and aimed to make choice of a method and associated device for effective decontamination and warming potable water for humans during long confinement and isolation. Analysis of the literary data and patent specifications of chemical, physical and hybrid methods of water decontamination and warming guided the choice of energy of ultrahigh frequencies (UHF). Also, a waveguide-coaxial UHF-device implementing this method was proposed. Ease of the UHF energy transformation to heat, reliability, friendliness and impart attractiveness to the method in the eye of developers of long-operating physical-chemical life support systems.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Klimarev
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Il'in
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Starkova
mesh_terms: D003666:Decontamination / Q000379:methods*; D018504:Ecological Systems, Closed; D004867:Equipment Design; D006361:Heating / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation; D018508:Water Purification / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014881:Water Supply; D014893:Weightlessness