Published on March 18, 2017
NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with Brian Motil of the Glenn Research Center, the principal investigator of the Packed Bed Reactor experiment flying to the International Space Station on the Orbital 4 resupply mission. This experiment studies the behavior of gases and liquids when they flow simultaneously through a column filled with porous media, as is done in chemical engineering to enhance the contact between two immiscible fluid phases. Data from this experiment could lead to better designs for chemical and biological reactors used in water recovery, planetary surface processing and oxygen production, and thus longer space missions in the future.
