Designing Transportable Collectively Protective Shelters for Thermal Efficiency

Abstract

This paper discusses different techniques for designing a transportable collective protection shelter that is thermally efficient, meaning that the heating and cooling capacity needed to maintain a comfortable environment is minimized. Two areas of shelter design can be optimized to produce a shelter that is thermally efficient. First, a radiant barrier coating can be applied to either the shelter surface or a liner, or a solar shade can be used to reduce the radiant heat load. Second, the shelter and chemical/biological (CB) liner need to maintain membrane separation to increase the thermal resistance of the system by creating a dead air space.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA444671

Entities

People

  • Bill Gillespie
  • Bryan Kohn
  • Carl Williams
  • Don Johnson
  • Neal M. Riemer
  • Scott Matheson

Organizations

  • Air Armament Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collective Protection
  • Conduction (Heat Transfer)
  • Efficiency
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Environment
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Materials
  • Membranes
  • Radiation
  • Solar Radiation
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermal Efficiency
  • Thermal Resistance
  • Transportable

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Space