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Liquid Moisture Transport in Multilayer Fabric Sets for Firefighters Protective Clothing
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: Received: 15 April 2024 / Approved: 17 April 2024 / Online: 17 April 2024 (12:13:31 CEST)
How to cite: Matusiak, M.; Sukhbat, O. Liquid Moisture Transport in Multilayer Fabric Sets for Firefighters Protective Clothing. Preprints 2024, 2024041105. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1105.v1 Matusiak, M.; Sukhbat, O. Liquid Moisture Transport in Multilayer Fabric Sets for Firefighters Protective Clothing. Preprints 2024, 2024041105. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1105.v1
Abstract
Firefighters Protective Clothing consist of several layers of different properties and functions. The layers create barriers against dangerous outer factor. However, they are also barriers to transport of sweat produced by human organism. It causes that very often sweat in the form of vapor is not transferred effectively from the human organism through the FPC to environment. This leads to sweat condensation on the skin of the FPC user causing his discomfort. In order to ensure as good as possible physiological comfort of firefighter while firefighting and other rescue actions it is necessary to take into consideration the transport of condensed sweat in the multilayer textile set creating the FPC. In the presented work four variants of multilayer textile sets for the FPC have been tested in the aspect of liquid moisture transport. Measurement was performed by means of the Moisture Management Tester (MMT290) – innovative instrument manufactured by the SDL Atlas. Obtained results showed that the transfer of sweat in liquid form occurs only in the inner, next to skin layer of the multilayer sets for the FPC.
Keywords
liquid transport; comfort; firefighters protective clothing; Moisture Management Tester
Subject
Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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