The Application of Phase Change Material in Fire Fighter Protective Clothing

Fire Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 841-864

  McCarthy, Lee K ^a   di Marzo, Marino ^b  

^a United States Department of Justice   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire fighter; Heat transfer; Latent energy; Phase change material; Protective clothing

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE; FIRE FIGHTERS; HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE; LATENT ENERGY; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM); SKIN SURFACES; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL PROTECTION;

EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; HEAT TRANSFER; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 84865404451     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-011-0248-3     Document Type: Article

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