Journal of Textile Research ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (06): 198-207.doi: 10.13475/j.fzxb.20200800910

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Review on liquid cooling garment and its feasibility study in fire fighting

WANG Xiaobo1, QIAN Xiaoming1(), WANG Lijing2, LIU Yongsheng1, BAI He1   

  1. 1. School of Textile Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
    2. School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia
  • Received:2020-08-03 Revised:2021-01-25 Online:2021-06-15 Published:2021-06-28
  • Contact: QIAN Xiaoming E-mail:qxm@tiangong.edu.cn

Abstract:

Fire fighting suit has outstanding thermal protection ability, but the poor thermal and wet conductivity hinders the timely discharge of the excessive heat from the human body. Aimed at the alleviation of human heat accumulation in fire fighting and avoid heat damage, this paper reviewed on the influencing factors and research progress in the wearability of liquid cooling garment, including the cooling pipes, cooling medium, basic clothing, intelligent control of cooling system and regional cooling. On the basis of evaluating the fire fighting environment, the characteristics of human thermal balance was analyzed and summarizing the current fire fighting cooling strategies, combined with the respective characteristics of liquid cooling system and fire fighting suits were summarized. The feasibility of liquid cooling system embeded into fire fighting suit was analyzed, and its development trend discussed. The paper recognized that the liquid cooling system and the fire fighting suits have good compatibility. it was suggested that the improvement of cooling capacity, development of intelligent control, development of special hardware and optimization of cooling loop would be the future development directions.

Key words: liquid cooling garment, liquid cooling firefighter protective clothing, intelligent firefighter protective clothing, cooling strategy in firefighting, micro-environment management under clothing

CLC Number: 

  • TS101

Fig.1

Basic structure of LCG"

Tab.1

Parameters of cooling pipe in LCG"

参考文献
编号
总长
度/m
覆盖
率/%
内径/
mm
外径/
mm
头部和颈部
占比/%
手臂占
比/%
躯干占
比/%
腿部占
比/%
[8] 60 29.4 26.9 43.8
[9] 60 26.2 25.6 48.2
[10] 120 22 1.6 3.2 29.5 20.5 24.5 25.6
[11] 40 13 4.0 6.0
[12] 50 17 4.0 6.0
[13] 25 20 30 25
[14] 2.4 4.0 9.6 18.2 33 39.3
[15] 80 22 3.0 5.0 4.5 16.7 20 36.8
[16] 60 11 25 25 50
[17] 91 16 1.6 3.2
[18] 106 19 1.6 3.2 18.9 22.6 58.5
[19] 6.23 2.4 4 100
[20] 17 2 4
[21] 14.3~31.4 100

Tab.2

The cooling medium parameters and its cooling efficiency"

参考文献编号 介质 环境温度和
相对湿度
入口温度/℃ 出口温度/℃ 流量/(L·min-1) 冷却效率/W
[12] 30 ℃, — 13.2 17.1 1.65 446
[14] 23 ℃, 60% 16 68~265
[17] 35 ℃, 40% 16~30 1.8 0~300
[18] 躯干:19~32 1.5 10~70
35 ℃, 40% 手臂:17~32 10~65
腿部:8~29 30~340
[19] (24±1) ℃, (24±2)% 10 0.143 81
[28] 30 ℃, 40% 根据需要调节 3.8 0~300
[21] 35 ℃, 30% 7~10 0.25~0.75 220~284

Tab.3

Classification of thermal environmental in firefighting"

热暴露等级 救援场景 环境温度/℃ 热通量/(kW·m-2) 作业时间/min 战斗特点
常规热环境 消防员打开消防栓,并在一定距离外进行消防战斗 60~100 0.83~1.67 10~30 大多数的消防战斗环境
危险热环境 消防员在一个燃烧的建筑外进行消防战斗 120~300 2~12.5 1~10 短时间的消防战斗
紧急热环境 消防员进入一个燃烧的建筑物进行消防救援工作 300~1 200 12~200 0.08~0.33 需要特殊的防护装备
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