The impact of water on firefighter protective clothing thermal performance and steam burn occurrence in firefighters

Exposure to oscillating heat fluxes while having variable water contents in the thermal protective clothing (T.P. C) is possible in a real firefighting scenario. The occurrence of steam burns becomes inevitable in certain conditions which are still unidentified in the literature. In light of such, i...

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Main Author: André Fonseca Malaquias (author)
Other Authors: Soraia Neves (author), Campos, JBLM (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/137983
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/137983