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Monday, February 22, 2021

TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?

I'd never heard that submarines use “oxygen candles” as a backup to electrolysis to generate oxygen. Combustion that liberates free oxygen in a submerged submarine—what could possibly go wrong?

It is also interesting that monoethanolamine scrubbing allow removal of carbon dioxide without a consumable such as lithium hydroxide.

Posted at February 22, 2021 13:27