ABSTRACT
With the increasing need for human safety and health, protective clothing has been developed as an indispensable equipment in the protection of firefighters against various hazards. The essential part in engineering a high-performance gear is the understanding of fundamentals associated with heat and moisture transfer in clothing systems and the underlining mechanism that contributes to skin burn injury. Numerous models on heat and moisture transfer in firefighting protective clothing have been conducted in the effort. This chapter reviews the development and simulation methods of heat and moisture transfer model in firefighting protective clothing. The accuracy and scope of skin heat transfer and skin burn models are compared as well. Further development on heat and moisture transfer model is proposed for improving the precision of model prediction and widening the model applications in the fields of material science, textile engineering, clothing system design, public safety, and thermal engineering.
