NBC Personnel Cooling Suit

"The personal cooling system being proposed consists of vests and shorts connected to a temperature controlled fluid supply. The garments consist of a bladder system laminated onto a stretch cotton garment base. The bladder is fabricated as a flat laminatewith each channel containing a ribbon of closed cell foam. This construction results in a garment that is extremely efficient, providing the maximum possible contact area between the skin and the working fluid; are exceptionally resistant to pointpressure squeeze-off of flow; and are very comfortable to wear. The chilled working fluid is supplied from a reservoir and is automatically mixed with fluid returning from the garment to provide a working fluid to the garment at a constant temperatureover the life of the cooling source. These features represents a significant improvement over existing systems which have no temperature control but generally rely on a constant, powered flow of fluid at whatever temperature the chiller pack has reducedit to, and controlled by a flow valve to adjust the system performance. These other systems tend to supply uncomfortably cold fluid initially and then slowly heat-up as the chiller loses performance and drain the pump?s battery pack very quickly. Themarket for this personnel cooling technology extends far beyond either SOCOM or the TSWG applications. Any high heat load job, task or mission could benefit from the use of a personal cooling sys