Life Support Systems

The maintenance of life support and Environmental systems through inspections and preventive maintenance is charged to the Engineering Department. It doesn’t have to be stressed the importance of keeping this up. Each processing module has a duty cycle of 96 hours, and a normal maintenance schedule of 2,000 hours. At the end of each cycle the other module takes over, but subsystems can be switched earlier. Of all the ships systems, life support and environmental control are among the most critical. With multiple layers of back up complete system failure is highly unlikely. Even if there is a complete failure of the main systems, the back up systems should insure crew survival in most situations. Life Support and Environmental Systems under go constant computer monitoring and diagnostics.

Artificial Gravity

As with the life support and environmental systems, the Artificial Gravity is maintained through inspections and preventive maintenance. Although a lower priority then Life Support, it is still import to maintain gravity aboard ship/station. A controlled stream of gravitons like those produced by the tractor beam creates the gravity field. Power from the EPS is channeled into a hollow chamber of anicum titanide 454, a sealed cylinder measuring 50 cm in diameter by 25 cm high. The stator, once set to a rotational rate above 125,540 rpm, generates a graviton field with a short lifetime, on the order of a few picoseconds. A second layer of generators is placed beyond a 30-meter distance.

Replicator

Coordinate with Operations the scheduling of repairs for the Replicator. Although Operations can repair the minor problems with the Replicator, Engineers will have to deal with the more serious problems. There are two types of replicators; these are Food Synthesizers and Hardware Replicators.

Food Synthesizers

Food Synthesizers are optimized for a finer resolution, because of the necessity of accurately replicating the chemical composition of foodstuffs.

Hardware Replicators

Hardware Replicators are tuned to a lower resolution for greater energy efficiency and lower memory matrix requirements. Although there are a number of specialized replicators on the ship these are the to main types found.

Waste Recycling

There are four types of recycling aboard a Starship; Water and Sewage Recycling, Solid Waste, Matter, and Hazardous Waste.

Water and Sewage Recycling

Wastewater is pumped to treatment and recycling units located through out the ship. It under goes three stages of recycling then is pumped back out to the ship. Filtration until all solids and particulates are removed. Osmotic and Electrolytic fractioning used to remove dissolved and microscopic contaminates. Heating until the water is super heated to 150C for biological sterilization.

Solid Waste

Solid waste includes such items as clothing, packaging and other discarded containers, and small personal articles. These items are conveyed to processing units on the ship where they are scanned and classified as to type of composition. Items that can be recycled are then processed into packets, which can later be used to replicate new material such as uniforms or other containers.

Matter Replication Recycling

This is for material that cannot be directly recycled by mechanical or chemical means. It is processed and stored in matter synthesis recycling. This is accomplished by molecular matrix replicators that dematerialize the matter and stores it in the computer’s memory. Hazardous Waste: This is all liquid and solid waste, which are considered hazardous materials under toxicity, reactivity, biohazard or radioactivity standards. Such materials are separated from other waste material and immediately diverted to a matter replicator, which converts them to inert carbon particles.

Maintenance and repair

The entire waste-recycling unit undergoes constant computer monitoring due to the hazardous materials that rotate through the system. Each unit should be taken down for standard period maintenance every 300 hours of online use.

Atmospheric Recycling

It doesn’t need to be stressed on how important it is for this to remain working properly. Atmospheric processing modules are found through out the ship at about 50m3 of habitable ship’s volume. The device maintains a comfortable class M atmosphere, by removing the CO2 and other waste gases and particulates. Cruise Mode operational rules specify a ninety-six-hour duty cycle for processing modules, although normal time between scheduled maintenance is approximately two thousand operating hours.

Turbolift

The duty of the engineer on the Turboelevator system (Turbolift) is mostly on the Turbolift cars. The inspection and maintenance of the three linear motors and Inertial Dampening Field is of primary important, along with the electromagnetic conduits located along the side of all turboshafts. With acceleration of 10 m/sec 2 the IDF system is crucial to a comfortable ride.