BCS's first Cryo Breathing Apparatus (CryoBA). A dual 4 liter/2 hour pack.
Dave Bush, our Nasa Biomedical lab partner, models the 1st Cryo Breathing Apparatus.
Breathing off the pack.
BCS's 1st prototype CryoASFS (Alternative Supply & Fill Station)
This unit is outfitted with a Cryomech Cryocooler allowing it to be a Zero Loss system. This unit will quickly fill 4 packs simultaneously.
Demonstrating the ability to breath off the pack while loading
BCS's 1st prototype Advanced Supply and Fill Station (ASFS) is used here to fill the pack.
CryoASFS prototype 2
CryoASFS prototype 2
Human testing at Nasa's Biomedical Lab, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
All versions of our Liquid Air packs undergo rigorous human testing protocols
...maybe not all quite so rigorous
All of our packs are fitted with BCS's patented Attitude Independent Pickup (AIP) which allows for commodity pickup up to 90 degrees off-axis. A first of it's kind.
From the GoPro in Nasa's Biomedical Lab.
Pano view of part of Nasa's Biomedical Lab
Rohan Fernando (NIOSH), Ed Blalock (BCS), Dave Bush (Nasa)
Our 2nd prototype, the 7 liter/2 hour Advanced Cryo Breathing Apparatus (AcryoBA)
This unit has proven to be a much more efficient pack in design, weight, and breathing duration. Recently a 4 liter, 1 hour version was built and human tested with great success.
Our 2nd prototype, the 7 liter/2 hour Advanced Cryo Breathing Apparatus (AcryoBA)
Our 2nd prototype, the 7 liter/2 hour Advanced Cryo Breathing Apparatus (AcryoBA)
Human testing of the 2 hour AcryoBA.
Off axis human testing. One of many required protocols.
Again, all our units are equipped with the patented Attitude Independent Pickup (AIP) which allows for commodity pickup up to 90 degrees.
BCS's 1st prototype CryoRASS (Refuge Alternative Supply System)
This unit is outfitted with a Cryomech Cryocooler allowing it to be a Zero Loss system.
Prepping for BCS's first 96 hour mine refuge chamber testing, 2013.
Installing instrumentation inside the 10 man mine refuge chamber.
Mine refuge chamber setup.
The blue box on the right is BCS's CryoRASS (Refuge Alternative Supply System) using Liquid Air as its source commodity.
Flow rate test.
The CryoRASS air plenum.
A inflatable mine refuge chamber to support a 96 hour in-mine test at NIOSH's Bruceton Research Mine, 2014.
BCS's CryoRASS entering NIOSH's Bruceton Research Mine to support the 96 hour test, 2014.
CryoRASS 3, 2000 liter
CryoRASS 3, 2000 liter
CryoRASS 3, 2000 liter
BCS's Zero Loss portable Liquid Air cart in use at Nasa's Life Support facility.
This unit is outfitted with a Cryomech Cryocooler allowing it to be a Zero Loss system.
BCS's portable LASH (Liquid Air Supplied Hoseline) system.
Nasa SCAPE suits during a LASH test.
SCAPE: Self Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble
LASH: Liquid Air Supplied Hoseline
Nasa management at BCS's shop for a "show and tell" of BCS's portable LASH system.
Nasa "show and tell" cont...
Please notice BCS's Zero Loss RASS system on the far left feeding, via a VJ cyrogenic hose, the LASH unit which in turn provides cool, clean breathing air to the suits.
To mix small batches of Liquid Air, BCS has developed a "Y" mixing system.
This system has been dialed in to get the satisfactory 80% Nitrogen, 20% Oxygen mix needed for safe breathing.
Retro-fitting a Nasa ECU with BCS's patented AIP (Attitude Independent Pickup) equipped dewar.
A KSC Liquid Air tanker loading one of our 425 liter dewars.
the LOXK
One of BCS's many projects, a liquid oxygen re-breather.
LOXK re-breather
BCS has successfully designed a "real time" Liquid Air sampling method.
This method has the potential to provide a substantial cost and time savings.
BCS's portable cart loading a KSC Cosmodyne cryogenic sampler.
This long established method by KSC is accurate but costly in labor hours and commodity. BCS's method is neither.
Liquid Air Pack with a battery operated fan
In an effort to utilize the cooling of the pack's heat exchanger coils, a battery operated fan was installed to help circulate cool air over the users head.
Off the shelf Level A hazmat suit.
The Liquid Air pack with the fan was tested inside a level A suit on a hot Florida day (90 degrees).
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Florida State Fire College visit/Ocala, FL.
The 4L/1 hour pack about to be subjected to a live fire situation.
Going in!
This was the first time any of our packs were subjected to a live fire situation. They performed admirably.
The Florida State Fire College "Hot House" or "Burn Building"
Post test...
Other than the pack coming out a bit less shiny, it held up to the extreme heat and smoke very well.
Fire truck and burn building at the Florida State Fire College in Ocala, Fl.
The 7L / 2 hour pack about to take its turn...
2hr pack on its way in!
A side by side comparison of the traditionally used compressed air bottles and BCS's 4L / 1 hour Liquid Air pack.
LCG (Liquid Cooling Garment) prototype testing
This LCG is unique in that instead of the usual supply of ice water as the source of cooling, we use the cryogenic supply.
LCG prototype testing.
Fire Rescue International (FRI) Conference, 2017
Thermal of LCG
Thermal of LCG
Thermal of LCG
Notice the temperature gradient of the wearers shirt in direct sunlight of 106.6 F where the garment is 62.1 F in the previous picture.
Installing a Cryomech coldfinger
Bench testing the liquid level sensor
Bench testing the liquid level sensor
Welding ops...
Grinding ops...
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