Influence of Initial Moisture Content on Heat and Moisture Transfer in Firefighters’ Protective Clothing

Table 2

Thermophysical and geometrical properties assigned to skin layers [14, 15, 25–28].

Property	Epidermis	Dermis	Subcutaneous tissue	Blood
Density [kg m^−3]	1200	1200	1000	1060
Thermal conductivity [W m^−1 °C^−1]	0.23	0.45	0.19	—
[m]	0.08 × 10^−3	2 × 10^−3	10 × 10^−3	—
[J kg^−1 °C^−1]	3600	3300	2300	3770
[m^3 sec^−1 m^−3 tissue]	0	0.00125	0.00125	—