Abstract:

The stored thermal energy in firefighter protective clothing is one of the most important factors to produce skin burn injury in low heat flux environment, and reasonable evaluation of which can improve the accuracy of the research on thermal protective performance of firefighters’ clothing. The developments of stored thermal energy in firefighter’s turnout suit in low heat flux environment were reviewed, the cause of stored thermal energy and its negative impacts on main parts of body burn injury were analyzed, the experimental evaluation methods were summarized including test apparatus, test methods and assessment methods, and the clothing and environmental influences of stored thermal energy were summarized. At last, based on the analysis above, the developing trends of the study on stored thermal energy in firefighters’ protective clothing were predicted.