Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility 

Facility Description

The Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility, which is located at Technical Area 52, building 1, offers users the capabilities they need to develop and evaluate personal protective clothing and equipment.

• Test chambers
• Chemical adsorption and chemical permeation laboratories
• Wind tunnel
• Data acquisition systems
• Telemetric test-subject monitoring system
• Machine shop
• Office space

We also offer an excellent work environment and services for the user who seeks optimal test conditions and an on-site experienced staff.

• Use of computing equipment
• Support of our administrative staff
• Excellent communication systems
• Technical staff support for laboratory users
• Backup by skilled technicians
• On-site machining and fabrication capability

Equipment

Users of our test facility will have the advantage of state-of-the-art equipment for testing personal protective equipment.

• Test chambers
  37m³ controlled environment (-30^oF~120^oF, 10~95%RH) aerosol/gas test chamber
  Two ambient temperature aerosol/gas chambers--one 4 m³ and one 19 m³
• Wind Tunnel
  0.7 m H x.0.5m W x 18 m L, 610 m/min, wind tunnel
• Machining and Welding Equipment
• MAC, PC and Sun computers networked on ethernet
• IDEAS CAD system
• Special data acquisition system
  Data acquisition developed in-house, which integrates data acquisition from all chambers

Facility Access

The Personal Protective Equipment Environmental Test Facility provides OPEN access to users.

Last update: 25 June 2003

Technical Contact
Fred Bolton
S-10
Mail Stop: MS K542
Phone: 505-667-8511
Fax: 505-665-4477
E-mail Address: fnbolton@lanl.gov