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Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility
Facility Description
The Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility, which is located at Technical Area 52, building 1, offers users the capabilities they need to develop and evaluate personal protective clothing and equipment.
- Test chambers
- Chemical adsorption and chemical permeation laboratories
- Wind tunnel
- Data acquisition systems
- Telemetric test-subject monitoring system
- Machine shop
- Office space
We also offer an excellent work environment and services for the user who seeks optimal test conditions and an on-site experienced staff.
- Use of computing equipment
- Support of our administrative staff
- Excellent communication systems
- Technical staff support for laboratory users
- Backup by skilled technicians
- On-site machining and fabrication capability
Equipment
Users of
our test facility will have the advantage of state-of-the-art equipment
for testing personal protective equipment.
- Test chambers
37m3 controlled
environment (-30oF~120oF, 10~95%RH) aerosol/gas
test chamber
Two ambient
temperature aerosol/gas chambers--one 4 m3 and one 19
m3
- Wind
Tunnel
0.7 m
H x.0.5m W x 18 m L, 610 m/min, wind tunnel
- Machining
and Welding Equipment
- MAC,
PC and Sun computers networked on ethernet
- IDEAS
CAD system
- Special
data acquisition system
Data
acquisition developed in-house, which integrates data acquisition
from all chambers
Facility Access
The
Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility provides
OPEN access to users.
Last update: 25 June 2003
Technical Contact
Fred Bolton
S-10
Mail Stop: MS K542
Phone: 505-667-8511
Fax: 505-665-4477
E-mail Address: fnbolton@lanl.gov
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