Welcome to the Protective Clothing and Equipment Research Facility Web Site
The Protective Clothing and Equipment Research Facility at the University of Alberta was created in 2002 from funding provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Alberta Science and Research Authority (ASRA), and various industry and government partners.
The new facilities and equipment broaden the scope of thermal protective testing and research capabilities. They facilitate research to develop dynamic models of heat and moisture transfer in high heat flux environments, and to address simultaneously the conflicting phenomena of protection and comfort. They also facilitate further collaboration with industry and government in the development of innovative protective materials, test protocols and equipment.
The Protective Clothing and Equipment Research Facility includes:
- An enhanced flash fire/instrumented mannequin facility
- A mass loss calorimeter; high temperature oxygen index analyzer; high speed imaging camera
- A Sweating torso, sweating guarded hot plate, and new water vapour diffusion system
- Electrostatic equipment: charge generation, electrical resistance, and charge decay
- Protective material development: Computer-driven dobby weaving machines for 3-D weaving
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Contact us at:
Protective Clothing and Equipment Research Facility
B33 Human Ecology Building
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2N1
Canada
Tel: 1-780-492-3832
Fax: 1-780-492-4111
Email:
PCERF@afhe.ualberta.ca
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