Chemical Protection Studies of Activated Carbon Spheres based Permeable Protective Clothing Against Sulfur Mustard, a Chemical Warfare Agent | Zendy

Manisha Sathe | Zendy; Pushpendra Kumar Sharma | Zendy; Virendra Singh | Zendy; Nagesh K. Tripathi | Zendy; Vijay C. Verma | Zendy; Shiv Prakash Sharma | Zendy; L.N.S. Tomar | Zendy; Ajay Chaturvedi | Zendy; S.S. Yadav | Zendy; Vikas B. Thakare | Zendy; Jyotiranjan Acharya | Zendy; Arvind K. Gupta | Zendy; K. Ganesan | Zendy

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Chemical Protection Studies of Activated Carbon Spheres based Permeable Protective Clothing Against Sulfur Mustard, a Chemical Warfare Agent

Author(s) -

Manisha Sathe,

Pushpendra Kumar Sharma,

Virendra Singh,

Nagesh K. Tripathi,

Vijay C. Verma,

Shiv Prakash Sharma,

L.N.S. Tomar,

Ajay Chaturvedi,

S.S. Yadav,

Vikas B. Thakare,

Jyotiranjan Acharya,

Arvind K. Gupta,

K. Ganesan

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

defence science journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.198

H-Index - 32

eISSN - 0976-464X

pISSN - 0011-748X

DOI - 10.14429/dsj.69.13958

Subject(s) - chemical warfare , chemical agents , sulfur mustard , chemical warfare agents , clothing , activated carbon , waste management , personal protective equipment , environmental science , adsorption , engineering , forensic engineering , chemistry , biochemical engineering , political science , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , disease , organic chemistry , toxicity , covid-19 , pathology

Technological advancements in the field of chemical threat have made it possible to create extremely dangerous chemical warfare agents (CWA). Hence, the effective protection of personnel is very important in a chemical warfare scenario amidst the current climate of terrorism awareness. In particular, body protection plays a substantial role in the chemical defence considering the urgency of situation in the nuclear, biological and chemical environment. Activated carbon spheres (ACS) based permeable chemical protective clothing (coverall) was developed for protection against CWA. The adsorbent material i.e, ACS used in this protective clothing provided higher adsorption capacity (1029 mg/g in terms of iodine) and low thermal burden (34 °C WBGT index) compared to earlier indigenously developed NBC suit. This article focuses on the extensive evaluation of chemical protective clothing against sulfur mustard (HD), a CWA. The results revealed that the developed protective clothing provided more than 24 h protection against HD. This chemical protective suit is light weight (< 2.75 kg for XL size). It also has higher air permeability (> 30 cm3/s/cm2) as well as less water vapour resistance (< 9.6 m2Pa/W). With continued innovations in materials and attention to key challenges it is expected that advanced, multifunction chemical protective suit will play a pivotal role in the CWA protection scenario.

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