TL;DR: Vacuum Pyrolysis is a main entry in the 外星矿物知识引擎 database.
Heating regolith or asteroid material in vacuum to release volatile compounds (water, sulfur, zinc, etc.) at different temperatures
Type
Extraction (volatile)
Organization
University of Central Florida, NASA KSC
Target
Lunar regolith, asteroid material
Status
Laboratory and vacuum chamber demonstrated
Breakthrough
Demonstrated sequential volatile release from lunar simulant at different temperatures