Advanced Worker Protection System
Description
The Advanced Worker Protection System (AWPS) is a liquid-air-based, self-contained breathing and cooling system with a duration of 2 hrs. AWPS employs a patented system developed by Oceaneering Space Systems (OSS), and was demonstrated at their facility in Houston, TX as well as at Kansas State University, Manhattan. The heart of the system is the life-support backpack that uses liquid air to provide cooling as well as breathing gas to the worker. The backpack is combined with advanced protective garments, an advanced liquid cooling garment (LCG), a respirator, and communications and support equipment. The prototype unit development and testing under Phase 1 has demonstrated that AWPS has the ability to meet performance criteria. These criteria were developed with an understanding of both the AWPS capabilities and the DOE decontamination and decommissioning (D and D) activities protection needs
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Also available from OSTI as DE96014778; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 17 p.
- Report number
- DOE/EM--0307
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 28005401
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Descriptors DEI
- COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYOGENIC FLUIDS; DECOMMISSIONING; DESIGN; LIFE-CYCLE COST; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OPERATION; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESPIRATORS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL
- Descriptors DEC
- CLOTHING; CONTROL; COST; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLUIDS; SAFETY; TESTING
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC05-84OR21400
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).