The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Amir Shahzad

Jintu Fan

A sweating simulator has a foundation panel (), a panel () and a temperature control panel (), a fixture for fixing a specimen, a container () for holding simulated sweat, a container () for collecting the simulated sweat, and a plurality of weighing scales for measuring masses of the simulated sweat supplied, evaporated and dripped from the specimen, respectively. The panel () and temperature control panel () constitute a simulated sweating plane for simulating wetting properties and temperature of skin. An upper middle position of the temperature control panel () has a sweating zone (), which has a plurality of sweating pores (). The temperature control panel () has a temperature sensor () and a heating element to control the temperature of the temperature control panel () around 33-35° C. to simulate the temperature of the human skin surface. The sweating rate of the sweating zone () is in the range of about 1 to 624 ml/h or about 0.004 to 2.5 L/h-mto simulate various sweating intensities.

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Amir Shahzad