月球基地建设是当前“重返月球”的一个重要目标,为满足其建设需要大量结构材料。部分学者通过对真实月壤样品和模拟月壤进行各种高温烧结实验,分析了就地利用月壤矿物资源制备各种材料的方法。但由于月壤成分较为复杂,烧结产物的性能还很难满足实际需求。微波烧结技术作为一项新技术,具有传统烧结技术无法比拟的优势,更适合作为月球资源利用中的烧结加热技术。结合月壤中钛铁矿的含量,通过热力学分析,作者认为利用钛铁矿进行微波烧结实验来制备月球基地所需结构材料是一个值得深入研究的方案。
To construct the lunar base is an important target of the "Human Returning to moon" progra.0 And a lunar base wil1 require large amounts of construction materials. Some scholars have made various experiments on H-T sintering real lunar soil samples and lunar simulants to analyze different methods of producing the construction materials by utilizing lunar soil mineral resources. But the properties of these sintering products are hard to meet the practice demand due to the complicated composition of lunar soil. In addition, the microwave sintering technique possesses many advantages which can not be compared by those of the traditional sintering techniques. So it is suitable for the lunar resource utilization. Considering the ilmenite content in lunar soil and through the thermodynamics analysis, we put forward a preliminary design of producing construction materials for the lunar base - that is microwave sintering ilmenite of lunar soil.