A portable water-conditioned suit system, employing a dry-ice cooler designed and constructed at the Naval Air Development Center and a commercially available water-cooled vest, was evaluated by exposing two sitting-resting subjects at sea level pressure to environments of 105F and 115F. Tests were conducted with and without the cooling system. Sublimation of approximately fifteen pounds of dry-ice kept the subjects relatively free from evidences of heat stress for periods of four hours at 115F. Based on a comparison with a wet-ice system, the dry-ice portable cooler, possessing significant advantages in terms of size and weight, produced equivalent cooling of the subjects. (Author)


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    Title :

    Description and Evaluation of a Portable Dry-Ice Water-Conditioned Suit System for Aircrewmembers


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    Publication date :

    1969


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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