Man-portable personal cooling garment based on vacuum desiccant cooling

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-24

  Yang, Yifan ^a   Stapleton, Jill ^a   Diagne, Barbara Thiané ^a   Kenny, Glen P ^a   Lan, Christopher Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorption; Evaporative cooling; Membrane; Personal cooling garment; Vacuum cooling

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; BODY SURFACE; COOLING CAPACITY; COOLING PADS; CORE TEMPERATURE; DESICCANT COOLING; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MAN-PORTABLE; METABOLIC HEAT; NUCLEAR , BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICALS; PERSONAL COOLING GARMENT; VACUUM COOLING; WORKING TIME;

ABSORPTION; DRIERS (MATERIALS); EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; MEMBRANES; VACUUM;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

EID: 84862262695     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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