The presentation outlines steam formation and turbine expansion, recovery of latent heat for habitat systems, preliminary mass and energy calculations, and the engineering work needed to validate the concept. Its calculations are illustrative and await experimental testing.
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Australian Space Research Conference 2026 - Adelaide: The Mareekh Process
The Mareekh Process presentation by Dr Muhammad Akbar Hussain at the Australian Space Research Conference 2026 in Adelaide, exploring a hybrid power and heat concept for Mars.
At the Australian Space Research Conference 2026 in Adelaide, Dr. Muhammad Akbar Hussain presented the Mareekh Process, a proposed hybrid power system for Mars. It uses external heat from solar or nuclear sources, subsurface water ice as a working mass, and the cold, low-pressure Martian environment as a thermodynamic sink.