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Grace Belancik

Air Revitalization Team Lead

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Affiliation: Bioengineering Branch, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center

Education

B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Current Roles and Responsibilities

  • Mars Campaign Office, Life Support Systems Project, CO2 Removal New Technology Development Lead 
  • Environmental Control Life Support System/Crew Health and Performance System Capabilities Leadership Team CO2 Removal Roadmap Lead
  • International Conference on Environmental Systems ECLSS and ISRU Committee Chair”

Research Interests

My research focuses on Environmental Control and Life Support Systems, specifically research and development of new technologies for air revitalization to be used in future crewed missions on spacecraft, stations, and surface habitats. My team’s development projects span the breadth of physio-chemical methods of capturing and managing CO2 as well as other air constituents including water vapor and trace contaminants.

Projects have included: Air-Cooled Temperature Swing Adsorption and Compression system (AC-TSAC), a passive zeolite CO2 compression and accumulation system; CO2 cold surface Deposition system (CDep), a sorbent-less, thermally-driven CO2 capture system; and Liquid Amine CO2 Removal (LACR), a capillary- driven system enabling passive air-liquid contact to capture CO2. A flight experiment confirming microgravity operation of LACR components and geometries, Capillary Sorbent Visible System (CVS), has flown on ISS.

Media

Publications

  1. Belancik, G., Chu, L., Costa, T., Soundararajan, M. “Evaluation of Alternative Liquid Sorbents and Additives for Spacecraft CO2 Capture,” ICES-2023-358, 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2023.
  2. Costa, T., Chu, L., Belancik, G., Samson, J., Barrett, L. “Update of the Ground-Based Liquid Amine Horizontal Contactor Test System,” 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2023.
  3. Jagtap, P., Belancik, G., Schuh, M., Samson, J., Costa, T., Gan, K. “Spacecraft Carbon Dioxide Deposition Full-Scale System: Design, Analysis, Build and Test,” ICES-2023-376, 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2023.
  4. Whitlock, N., Belancik, G. “Microbial Mayhem: Microbial Growth Potential in CO2 Removal Systems Designed for Long-Duration Spaceflight,” ICES-2023-383, 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems, July 2023.
  5. Wells, J., Gan, K., Waddle, A., Belancik, G. “Integrated Testing of the Air Cooled Temperature Swing Adsorption Compression System (AC-TSAC) and 4-Bed Molecular Sieve (4BMS),” ICES-2023-104, 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems, July 2023.
  6. Chu, L., Belancik, G., Samson, J., Jagtap, P., Jan, D., Yau, A. “Development of the Liquid Amines Ground-Based Test System,” 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2021.
  7. Belancik, G., Schuh, M., Jan, D., Jagtap, P. “Modeling Performance of the Full Scale CO2 Deposition System,” 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2021.
  8. Jagtap, P., Belancik, G., Jan, D., Purdy, R. “Numerical Characterization of Spacecraft Cabin Air Dehumidification System for CO2 Removal,” 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2021.
  9. Belancik, G., Schuh, M., Jan, D., Jagtap, P. “Evaluating Capabilities of the Carbon Dioxide Deposition System,” International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2020.
  10. Jagtap, P., Belancik, G., Jan, D., Chen, W., Hall, S. “Power Optimization of Cryogenic CO2 Deposition Capture in Deep Space,” International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2020.
  11. Belancik, G., Jan, D., Huang, R. “Spacecraft Carbon Dioxide Deposition Subscale System Design and Test,” 49th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2019.
  12. Belancik, G., Jan, D., Huang, R. “Analysis of Spacecraft Cabin Carbon Dioxide Capture via Deposition,” 48th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2018.
  13. Huang, R., Silveria, M., Kong, J., Belancik, G., Jan, D. “Efficacy of FTIR Analysis in Determining CO2 Loading on Diglycolamine,” 48th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2018.
  14. Rogers, T., Paragano, M., Graf, J., Broerman, C., Belancik, G., Hogan, J., Jan, D., Westover, S. “Selection and Characterization of a Liquid Sorbent for CO2 Removal in Advanced Exploration Systems,” 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedings, July 2017.
  15. Belancik, G., Jan, D., Huang, R., Paredes-Garcia, J., Chambliss, J. “Characterizing Cryogenic Carbon Dioxide Capture for Life Support Systems,” 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems Proceedo-chemicalings, July 2017.