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| Review of Oxygen Production Using Oxygenous Minerals on the Moon |
| LI Peng1,2, WANG Shi-jie1, LI Xiong-yao1, TANG Hong1,2, CHEN Feng1 |
1. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of science, Guiyang 55002, China;
2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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Abstract Oxygen is a fundamental requirement for human to live on the Moon.Oxygen preparation is one of the major objectives in lunar resource utilization.It will be a more cost-efficient method to extract oxygen from lunar soil compared with transporting it directly from the Earth.The explorations had showed that there are various metal oxides and silicates with oxygen contents up to about 40% in lunar soil,which makes oxygen extraction from lunar soil possible.This paper summarized different oxygen extraction methods using reduction agents and heating technology.Microwave,which is a rapid and effective heating method,has many advantages over other traditional heating techniques.Therefore,this paper recommended microwave heating as the preferring heating method for speeding reduction reactions of oxygenous minerals to prepare oxygen on the Moon.Further study is much required.
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Received: 01 August 2008
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