Dallas resident Fritz Mowery is the president and chief investment officer of Mowery Capital Management, LLC. Fritz Mowery has served on the professional development board of the University of North Texas (UNT) at Denton.
UNT research has culminated in what might be a major innovation for NASA with the development of a tool that cleans the air for astronauts in space. Through a two-year $160,000 research grant, a graduate student and associate professor will design this carbon dioxide removal system.
The device is described as a “microgravity vortex phase separator for liquid amine” carbon dioxide removal system, and it simply scrubs the air clean of carbon dioxide. The device would be used for astronauts in an enclosed area, places where this compound aggregates unless removed.
NASA’s current technology is a solid, granular, sorbent-based system, which uses too much energy and cannot be used long-term. UNT’s device is expected to provide astronauts with “reliable, high-throughput flow and energy-efficient” carbon dioxide removal technology.
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