Safety Verification Test Facility - Odor Test Facility

Purpose of Facility

Equipment and materials that emit a strong odor cannot be loaded in living compartments of manned spacecraft such as pressurized sections of JEM, to ensure health of mission specialists. This facility evaluates odors emitted by samples.

Overview of Tests

Samples are placed inside a container, which is confirmed to be odorless, and the container is filled with pure air, after which the container is heated 72 hours at 49°C. After confirming that generated off gas is safe, five approved odor panelers smell odor and evaluates odor intensity in five levels.

Overview of Facility

The facility is composed of the following components:
1) Glass container to place samples in and to generate gas
2) Syringes to collect gas and other apparatuses
3) Masks to smell gas
4) Chemical as a reference for odor, adjusting apparatuses and cabinet to store them
    An off gas test facility is also used as off gas is generated.

Odor Test Procedures

Sample Acceptance	Acceptance inspection		Confirmation of safety by off gas test
	Sample adjustment and measurement
Prepare Container	Odor test of pure air
	Container cleaning
	Container odor test
Sample Loading	Place samples in container
	Fill pure air, adjust pressure		Prepare reference odor solution
Off gas Generation	Heats to 49°C		Paneler Approval	Paneler health check
	Maintain 72 hours			Paneler test by reference odor solution
Odor Test	Off gas sampling		Paneler selection	More than 5 panelers
	Judgment on off gas odor
Paneler health check
Compile report

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