"Thermodynamic Modelling of Ultra-high Vacuum Thermal Decomposition for Lunar Resource Processing" - Shaw et al. (2021)
Alan Duffy
In this outstanding work my PhD student Matthew Shaw has explored ways to process the Moon’s surface (known as regolith) into its valuable metals and oxygen using concentrated sunlight. This technique, known as pyrolysis, can liberate these resources for use by NASA’s program Artemis and their return to the Moon in a framework called In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU).
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