Designing Transportable Collectively Protective Shelters for Thermal Efficiency

摘要

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.