PORTICOOL Personal Cooling System

Everybody has experienced the discomfort of being too warm. There are some important jobs that induce overheating so severe that it actually impairs one’s ability to move or think. It is difficult to understand just how serious this is until you have spent a few minutes inside a HAZMAT suit or “turnout-gear”, as seen here.

Today, the only solution is to limit exposure. A HAZMAT specialist is able to spend 15 to 20 minutes on a mission before he must be replaced by a colleague. The logistic costs are enormous, and the danger of physical incapacity is very real.

Porticos engineers conceived of a thin, flexible garment that would route liquefied CO2 around the body. The apparatus will induce conductive, convective, and even evaporative cooling, which implies unprecedented performance and low weight. The results looked so promising that we decided to build one.

There is not anything like this on the market: A self-contained, highly effective personal cooling system! It functions within any off-the-shelf protective garment. Cooling starts immediately, and measurably improves the performance of the wearer.

These prototypes were so successful that Porticool incorporated was born, and is now finalizing development and beginning industrialization. We hope to soon have these devices in the hands of civil and military First Responders.