TY - JOUR
TI - Comparative analysis of thermal and wet comfort between novel phase-change protective firefighting suit and its common counterpart
AU - Lu Xin
AU - Wang Wei
AU - Wu Shigang
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2023
VL - 27
IS - 3
SP - 1927
EP - 1936
PT - Article
AB - The superb firefighting garment is the critical guarantee to protect  firefighters from burn harm. Despite intensive effort has been devoted to  the inflammability of firefighting suit prepared with the novel PCM, its  comfort satisfaction is rarely studied. Thus, the thermal and wet  comfortability of PCM-firefighting suit and its common counterpart were  contrastively analyzed to clarify the effects of PCM on the wear comfort.  Results of correlation analysis and partial correlation analysis through  SPSS showed that PCM-firefighting suit was more suitable for the harsh  environment of high temperature and humidity due to the improved over-all  performance than its common counterpart. The paper sheds a promising light  on the future design and construction of high performance firefighting  garment integrated with excellent inflammability and wear comfort.