Air
Quality, composition, and oxygen.
Air is treated as a managed resource, not an ambient assumption. Heliphere delivers atmospheric control systems for sealed and semi-sealed environments.
Air is treated as a managed resource, not an ambient assumption. Heliphere delivers atmospheric control systems for sealed and semi-sealed environments.
In sealed or semi-sealed spaces, air quality can degrade quickly without continuous control. Filters, consumables, and ventilation constraints drive risk.
In a sealed environment, nothing about the atmosphere can be taken for granted. The air loop captures and routes every component — CO₂, O₂, humidity, particulates — to wherever in the system it is most useful.
Living plant systems serve as the primary CO₂ removal and oxygen generation mechanism. Photosynthetic cultivation zones continuously process atmospheric CO₂ and return oxygen — eliminating dependence on chemical scrubbers and compressed gas resupply.
Solid sorbent and electrochemical CO₂ capture systems serve as a resilient fallback and augmentation to biological scrubbing. These systems concentrate captured CO₂ into a usable stream routed directly to food cultivation zones and materials mineralisation processes.
Catalytic, photocatalytic and plasma-based systems remove volatile organic compounds, pathogens and particulates. These approaches regenerate continuously without consumable media, eliminating scheduled filter replacement and the associated logistics dependency.
Oxygen generation through both photosynthesis and water electrolysis is a core focus. Producing oxygen in situ eliminates compressed gas stockpiles and resupply schedules — the two highest-risk failure modes in conventional sealed-environment life support.
Dehumidification processes already required for atmospheric control are integrated with water recovery systems. Condensate from humidity management is a continuous pure water source requiring no additional extraction infrastructure — the air loop produces water as a byproduct of doing its primary job.
Closed-loop sensing and actuation architectures manage O₂ fraction, CO₂ concentration, humidity, pressure and temperature simultaneously. Unified control eliminates the conflicts that arise when these variables are managed by separate systems with competing setpoints.
Continuous sensor networks detect trace gases, biological agents, particulates and chemical contaminants. Early detection enables automated response before contaminant levels become hazardous — converting the air loop from a passive environment into an actively managed safety system.