Physiologically derived critical evaporative coefficients for protective clothing ensembles

1987 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 1095-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. L. Kenney ◽  
D. A. Lewis ◽  
D. E. Hyde ◽  
T. S. Dyksterhouse ◽  
C. G. Armstrong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Protective Clothing ◽  
Water Vapor Pressure ◽  
Radiant Heat ◽  
Ambient Water ◽  
External Work ◽  
Metabolic Heat ◽  
Physiological Approach ◽  
Sweating Efficiency

When work is performed in heavy clothing, evaporation of sweat from the skin to the environment is limited by layers of wet clothing and air. The magnitude of decrement in evaporative cooling is a function of the clothing's resistance to permeation of water vapor. A physiological approach has been used to derive effective evaporative coefficients (he) which define this ability to evaporate sweat. We refined this approach by correcting the critical effective evaporative coefficient (K for sweating efficiency (Ke,eta') since only a portion of the sweat produced under such conditions is evaporated through the clothing. Six acclimated men and women walked at 30% maximal O2 consumption (150–200 W.m-2) at a constant dry bulb temperature as ambient water vapor pressure was systematically increased 1 Torr every 10 min. Critical pressure was defined as the partial pressure of water vapor (Pw) at which thermal balance could no longer be maintained and rectal temperature rose sharply. Each test was performed in various clothing ensembles ranging from cotton shirt and pants to “impermeable” suits. This approach was used to derive he by solving the general heat balance equation, M - W +/- (R + C) = w.he.(Psk - Pw), where M is metabolic heat production, W is external work, R is radiant heat exchange, C is convective heat transfer, w is skin wettedness, and Psk is water vapor pressure of fully wet skin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

EFFECT OF WATER VAPOR ON THE FORMATION OF MODIFICATIONS

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 2522-2529 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Kuntze
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Calcium Sulfate ◽  
Water Vapor Pressure ◽  
Exothermic Peak ◽  
Vapor Pressures ◽  
Ambient Water ◽  
Rate Of Heating ◽  
Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate

The two recognized forms of calcium sulfate hemihydrate can be identified by the position of a relatively small exothermic peak in their differential thermograms. Hemihydrates prepared at various water vapor pressures up to 760 mm Hg were found to produce this exothermic peak in a position which is characteristic for the β-form. These results indicate that α-hemihydrate cannot be made at atmospheric pressure, as was previously suggested on the basis of heat solution measurements. The typical differential thermogram of α-hemihydrate is only obtained with material made by dehydration in solution or by autoclaving. The effect of ambient water vapor pressure on the position of the three peaks that occur in the differential thermogram of CaSO4•2H2O has also been studied. It was found that the incipient temperature of the second endothermic peak, corresponding to the transition of hemihydrate to soluble anhydrite, is displaced independent of the rate of heating from 145 °C to 187 °C with increasing water vapor pressures up to 760 mm Hg. This indicates that, for each temperature, a threshold water vapor pressure exists, above which soluble anhydrite cannot be formed.

Psychrometric limits and critical evaporative coefficients for unacclimated men and women

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 2256-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Larry Kenney ◽  
Michael J. Zeman
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Heat Balance ◽  
Water Vapor Pressure ◽  
Metabolic Heat Production ◽  
Maximal Aerobic Capacity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Metabolic Heat ◽  
Environmental Limits

Critical environmental limits, defined as those above which heat balance cannot be maintained for a given metabolic heat production, have not been determined for unacclimated subjects. To characterize critical environmental limits and to derive evaporative heat exchange coefficients ( K e′) for unacclimated young men ( n = 11) and women ( n = 10), subjects of average aerobic fitness walked at 30% maximal aerobic capacity in an environmental chamber. Critical environmental conditions were defined as the psychrometric loci of dry-bulb temperature and water vapor pressure at which core (esophageal) temperature was forced out of equilibrium (heat gain exceeded heat loss). Compared with the men in our study, the women had significantly higher critical environmental limits ( P < 0.001) in warm (34–38°C), humid (>60%) environments, a function of their lower absolute metabolic heat production at the fixed relative exercise intensity. Isotherms constructed from biophysical models closely fit the data in this range of environments but underestimated empirically determined critical limits in hotter, drier environments. Sex-specific values of K e′ were derived by partial calorimetry in the critical water vapor pressure environments, in which full skin wettedness occurred. There were no sex differences for K e′ (men = 17.4, 15.5, and 14.2 W · m−2 · Torr−1 and women = 16.8, 15.5, and 14.2 W · m−2 · Torr−1 at 34, 36, and 38°C, respectively). These K e′ values were lower than those previously published for fully heat-acclimated men (18.4 W · m−2 · Torr−1 at 36°C) and women (17.7 W · m−2 · Torr−1 at 36°C and 15.5 W · m−2 · Torr−1 at 38°C) and may be used to model heat balance responses for unacclimated men and women working in hot environments.

scholarly journals Water vapor pressure trends in south and southwest Iran

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-348
Author(s):  
YOUNES KHOSRAVI ◽  
HASAN LASHKARI ◽  
HOSEIN ASAKEREH
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Water Vapor Pressure ◽  
Sen’S Slope Estimator ◽  
Sen’S Slope ◽  
Ground Station ◽  
Mk Test ◽  
Slope Estimator ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Recognitionanddetectionofclimaticparameters inhave animportant role inclimate change monitoring. In this study, the analysis of oneofthe most importantparameters, water vapor pressure (WVP), was investigated. For this purpose, two non-parametric techniques, Mann-Kendall and Sen's Slope Estimator, were used to analyze the WVP trend and to determine the magnitude of the trends, respectively. To analyze these tests, ground station observations [10 stations for period of 44 years (1967-2010)] and gridded data [pixels with the dimension of 9 × 9 km over a 30-year period (1981-2010)] in South and SouthwestofIran were used. By programming in MATLAB software, the monthly, seasonal and annual WVP time series were extracted and MK and Sen's slope estimator tests were done. The results of monthly MK test on ground station observations showed that the significant downward trends are more considerable than significant upward trends. It also showed that the WVP highest frequency was more in warm months, April to September and the highest frequency of significant trends slope was in February and May. The spatial distribution of MK test of monthly gridded WVP time series showed that the upward trends were detected mostly in western zone and near the Persian Gulf in August. On the other hand, the downward trends through months. The maximum and minimum values of positive trends slope occurred in warm months and cold months, respectively. The analysis of the MK test of the annual WVP time series indicated the upward significant trends in the southeast and southwest zones of study area.  

Temperature and Water Vapor Pressure Effects on the Friction Coefficient of Hydrogenated Diamondlike Carbon Films

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela L. Dickrell ◽  
N. Argibay ◽  
Osman L. Eryilmaz ◽  
Ali Erdemir ◽  
W. Gregory Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Water Vapor Pressure ◽  
Carbon Film ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Carbon Films ◽  
Pressure Effects ◽  
Diamondlike Carbon ◽  
Gas Surface Interactions

Microtribological measurements of a hydrogenated diamondlike carbon film in controlled gaseous environments show that water vapor plays a significant role in the friction coefficient. These experiments reveal an initial high friction transient behavior that does not reoccur even after extended periods of exposure to low partial pressures of H2O and O2. Experiments varying both water vapor pressure and sample temperature show trends of a decreasing friction coefficient as a function of both the decreasing water vapor pressure and the increasing substrate temperature. Theses trends are examined with regard to first order gas-surface interactions. Model fits give activation energies on the order of 40 kJ/mol, which is consistent with water vapor desorption.

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