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After depressurization of the cabin though there is, obviously, no environment to condition, and during repressurization fresh oxygen needs to be supplied at high flowrate from oxygen tank at cryogenic-temperature to fill the entire cabin. What heating mechanism was applied to heat up the supply of fresh cryogenic oxygen for CM cabin repressurisation?
P.S. In original question I asked about repressurization of both CM and LM, but it seems LM stored oxygen in compressed gas form rather than cryogenic liquid or supercritical fluid, therefore I have removed LM from the question.
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Unsurprisingly, it worked exactly like it did in shuttle.
To assure uniform flow, the capillary restrictors are coiled around a warm water-glycol line to increase the oxygen temperature.
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The aforementioned oxygen supply capillary restrictors are wound around the line routed to the space radiators and relief valves. The other line is routed to the mixing valve. To insure proper operation of the oxygen supply restrictors, in the line between the cryogenic O2 storage in the S/M to the surge tanks in the C/M during cabin repressurization, full water - glycol flow through the line to the space radiators is required. Sufficient heat must be available to prevent cryogenic oxygen entering the C/M oxygen system and preclude the possibility of freezing the water-glycol. To achieve this, the mixing valve must be manually placed to the full closed position 15 to 30 minutes before repressurization and remain closed until the surge tank returns to maximum pressure after repressurization of the C/M.