Astronauts Smart Waste Management in Space Suit for Planets Discoveries or Critical International Space Station Migration by Valafar Mehran for NASA Challenge

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Astronauts Smart Waste Management in Space Suit for Planets Discoveries or Critical International Space Station Migration by Valafar Mehran for NASA Challenge

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Astronauts Smart Waste Management in Space Suit for Planets Discoveries or Critical International Space Station Migration

Executive Summary

Methods of Pee at Earth with Using of Gravity is not practical at Zero Gravity out of EARTH. 
When Peoples Pee At earth, Pee Goes Downside, toward the earth but in Absence of Gravity Pee Goes Every Where & to any Direction So We Should Control the Direction of Flow because of its floatness physics. The Mass of Urine is very lighter than its mass in EARTH so we should Force them to the direction we want to flow for Accumulation. We trap Urine and other wastes with aid of a little force for sending them to its containers. It is important to remove any remained part of these wasted material with Any Form (Solid, Fluid and Gas) of Astronauts body and trap them. main rules here is to Don’t Let any waste on the body. don’t allow them to float. don’t allow them to leak into the body,Space Suit & etc. 
wastes may Damage mentally & physically Astronauts and force them to lost Concentration for Doing Proper Space Missions. So After Outputting the Waste should Wash or Clean Properly Astronauts Body if needed. Necessary Stages for Outputting waste Must Be Controlled and Directed By means of Relevant Actions and controlled by microprocessor system. Smart Waste Trapping System or S.W.T.S. is mainly a Smart Collection of Sensors and electronics Circuit, Wires, Valves, Solenoids, Tubes, Containers, and Vacuum Tanks for Collecting Any Form of waste in Proper place Container. S.W.T.S. even recycle urine for next necessary washing processes by using special tablets named water purification tablet and using those recycled urine with wash nuzzles for fecal or menstruation.

Why should your Solution be chosen for an award?

Simplicity,Smartness ,overall integration ,Auto washing , Auto Sealing Mechanism ,Flexible Self Adjusting Mechanism for different body size of Astronauts,being Hybrid for Both Male/Female Astronauts, Cheapness And Accessibility of the components, technology And Manufacturing More of Parts easily even At International Space Station By Astronauts with 
using Compact 3D Printers is Reason of being an Idle Solution Named Astronauts Smart 
Waste Management or A.S.W.M.

What waste does your solution manage?

Urine for women
Urine for men
Feces
Menstruation

How it Works

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How does your solution manage up to 1 L per day of urine for 6 days for women?

all the urine will be suctioned in plastic containers specially made for urine & other waste. Urine Sink has a particular shape Compatible with both Male/Female Sex Organ so without attention of sex of astronauts it is able to collect all the urine towards its relevant pipes leading them to the Urine Containers. While urine are outputting of the sink it Sticks to the body via sink margin holes to prevent any leakage of urine to Space Suit or body of 
astronauts. Any Urine/Menstruation Container has a volume capacity 3050ml and is plastic made and is soft so Astronauts can move and seat easily. So at sum because of having two urine containers we may 
preserve 6100ml of Urine. Each single Urine Container capacity is Equale to 3050ml & container is never stretched to its full capacity and so is smaller because of elastic form of container

How does your solution manage up to 1 L per day of urine for 6 days for men?

all the urine will be suctioned in plastic containers specially made for urine & other waste. Urine Sink has a particular shape Compatible with both Male/Female Sex Organ so without attention of sex of astronauts it is able to collect all the urine towards its relevant pipes leading them to the Urine Containers. While urine are outputting of the sink it Sticks to the body via sink margin holes to prevent any leakage of urine to Space Suit or body of 
astronauts. Any Urine/Menstruation Container has a volume capacity 3050ml and is plastic made and is soft so Astronauts can move and seat easily. So at sum because of having two urine containers we may 
preserve 6100ml of Urine. Each single Urine Container capacity is Equale to 3050ml & container is never stretched to its full capacity and so is smaller because of elastic form of container

How does your solution manage up to 75 g of fecal mass and 75 mL of fecal volume per day for 6 days?

Fecal Sink Sticks to the body via its margin holes to prevent any leakage of Fecal or washing Liquid procedures of astronaut’s anus and it keeps enough capacity for Fecal in Fecal Container. All the Fecal goes inside the Fecal Container like a vacuum cleaner system made by a Suction Tank .

How does your solution remove up to 80 mL of menstrual waste over the course of 6 days?

All The Fluid wastes like Menstrual will be suctioned in plastic container specially made for urine and menstruation. Urine Sink is able to collect all the urine of women in addition of menstruation towards its relevant pipes leading them to the Nested Waste Trapping Filter & Finally to the Containers. While Fluid are outputting ,sink margin Holes will Stick sink to the body to prevent any leakage of fluids to Space Suit or body of astronauts. Any Urine/Menstruation Container has a volume capacity of 3050 ml and is plastic made and is soft so Astronauts can move and seat easily. So at sum because of having two urine containers we may preserve 6100 ml of Urine & menstruation in Double Container.

How does your solution interface with the orange space suit? What changes, if any, would be required to the suit for implementation?

Smart Waste Trapping System or s.w.t.s. has no interaction to orange space suit. If we assume astronaut’s body like a core and orange space suit like a shell, s.w.t.s. will be at the middle of both and Mounted to the body but without any Connection to space suite. s.w.t.s. separation with space suite has so many benefits:
1-no need to change orange space suit
2-for having of best flexibility s.w.t.s. Sticks to the body and not to Space suit.
3-Mass and weight of s.w.t.s. Device & parts is less than of them at earth and Weight of all the s.w.t.s. 
Parts with All the parts and even 6 litter Urine,0.5 Kg Fecal ,80 ml menstruation is under 10 kg at earth and 
very lower at space that Symmetrical Distributed.

How does the crew member interact with your solution? Begin before the crew member dons your solution and walk through the entire process until the solution is removed after 6 days.

Crew member first put on s.w.t.s. Parts Consist of these procedures:
Put on Urine/menstruation Container
Put on Flexible Body Hinge mechanism
Insert Batteries & Pumps
After Mounting All of The A.S.W.M. Components we have in summary a portable Toilet on astronaut body.
Components with accessibility and reachable technology with smooth and not sharp Elastic Components.
this toilet is flexible so astronaut may seat,stand,work and sleep. on body we have A series of Dedicated containers for fluids,Solid and gas. after mounting all of them on the body we insert Elastic pipes to them 
and astronaut must open all the input and output valves.
now astronaut put on space suit. after mission and when astronaut want to remove A.S.W.M. & Space Suit 
it be unmounted vice versa as follow:
First close all input & output valves and remove any piping in A.S.W.M.
Remove all pumps and battery and then remove Flexible Body Hinge.
In Summary Crew Put on These Parts like A Portable Toilet with Clean and Empty Containers but after 6 days gradually Containers are full and will be removed after Missions.

Please expand on how your Solution is set up and secured prior to sealing the space suit?

Smart Waste Trapping System is like A Portable Toilet and has no interaction with outside of the space suit and does all its function smartly in inside so is not any caution and these Smart Components Because of using Microprocessor will use auto sealing of itself and leakage free for all kind of wastes.

How does your Solution allow the crew member to move bend, fit through small spaces, and/or be seated and strapped into a chair?

Smart Waste Trapping System is fully made of rubber and plastic for 
flexibility mounted on a body Hinge. It uses a main infrastructure named Flexible Body Hinge mechanism and all its component mounted on it. At ordinary Flexible Body Hinge mechanism is totally in adaptation with 
astronaut position & Size but when waste time outputting it will be auto-sealed by aids of sensors and Suction-Assist Collecting Technology.

How does your Solution operate effectively for crew members of varying size and weight?

A.S.W.M. Designed mainly for astronauts with built-in Flexible Self Adjusting Mechanism for different body size , weight and different body position of Astronauts.

How does the Solution ensure the conservation of gas in a crew member’s suit?

It Does all kind of its functions smartly and built-in so it trap all kind of waste even digestion gas Because of using Microprocessor and gas sensors that quickly will activate auto-sealing & auto gas suction of anus in fecal sink for leakage prevention for all kind of wastes and will trap the gas at Suction Tank.

How does your Solution protect the health and safety of a crew member?

It remove all fecal by suction power and collects them to relevant tank & wash astronaut anus and Suctions all kind of Waste to proper Container/Tank Depend on Urine, Fecal , menstruation & Digestion 
Gas by Management of Microprocessor and aids of sensors. in the Situation of Menstruation after Pulling the all contents to the proper tank at the next stage it will wash Female organ. so anus and Female sex 
organ will be washed by Wash Nuzzles in Back and front of body to protect astronauts health.

How does your Solution protect the comfort of a crew member?

Smart Waste Trapping System is fully made of rubber and plastic for flexibility mounted on a body Hinge. It uses a main infrastructure named Flexible Body Hinge mechanism and all its component mounted on it. At ordinary Flexible Body Hinge mechanism is totally in adaptation with astronaut position & Size but when waste time outputting it will be auto-sealed by aids of sensors and Suction-Assist Collecting Technology.

What is the Technical Readiness Level (TRL) of your solution? If your solution is requiring new and existing technologies, what is the TRL for each of these technologies?

All of the technologies in this system is widely used at earth but changed to be compatible with Conditions of space at the Zero gravity and because of importance of Sealing and flexibility of astronauts for doing missions All solution Packed in a integrated High graded System named Smart Waste Trapping System.

Discuss any other considerations that informed the design of your Solution, as applicable, and any other benefits not described in your other responses.

it is a complete solution for waste for long space travels & Critical Space migration with using best available technology With attention to all aspects.