Equipment Environment Simulation Laboratory

Introduction:

1) Environmental factors have always been critical to human survival, daily life, and work, as well as the reliable and safe operation of sea, land, air, and space vehicles, weapon systems, and various electromechanical systems. With the increasing frequency of extreme weather events in recent years, their adverse impact on the global economy and social stability has become more severe.

2) Environmental simulation technology refers to the technique of "reproducing (simulating)" various natural and induced environments in ground-based laboratories (chambers).

3) Environmental simulation laboratories are interdisciplinary research facilities that primarily study the methods and theories of simulating various environments. This field involves a new and highly engineering-oriented design theory and methodology for environmental simulation equipment, encompassing disciplines such as thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, materials science, biology, medicine, and optics, as well as technologies including refrigeration, vacuum, air conditioning, automatic control, detection, machinery, and manufacturing.

4) Based on their primary functions, environmental simulation technologies can be categorized into different types, such as climatic environment simulation, mechanical environment simulation, electromagnetic environment simulation, and composite environment simulation.

Functions:

1) Equipment environmental simulation laboratories can be designed to reproduce specific environments according to actual testing needs, allowing various experiments to be conducted without being limited by season, time of day, opportunity, or location. They can also simulate harsh and extreme environments on demand, making them widely applicable.

2) These laboratories can conduct environmental tests at various levels, including materials, products, complete machines, systems, and even "human + machine" combinations, to study and evaluate the environmental adaptability and reliability of both personnel and equipment.

3) Equipment environmental simulation laboratories primarily focus on reproducing various natural environments, including temperature and humidity, wind, rainfall, snowfall, ice accumulation, solar radiation, fog, salt spray, ultraviolet radiation, infrared radiation, high/low oxygen levels, and high/low pressure conditions.

4) They are capable of performing comprehensive simulations ranging from single-parameter to multi-parameter coupling, and from static to dynamic conditions.

5) These laboratories can conduct performance tests for various types of equipment according to standard requirements, providing validation basis for certain devices or equipment, as well as experimental data for the development of new products and technologies.

Parameters:

1) Size: 300~1000 m²;

2) Temperature: -40~40°C;

3) Humidity: 30~90% RH;

4) Wind speed: 0~12 m/s;

5) Rainfall intensity: 0~30 mm/h, adjustable;

6) Snowfall intensity: 0~5 mm/h, adjustable;

7) Ice accumulation intensity: 0~2 mm/h, adjustable;

8) Solar radiation: 0~1200 W/m², adjustable;

9) Fog generation: visibility 10 m~30 km, filling the space within half an hour;

10) Salt spray: sedimentation rate 0~3 ml/80 cm²;

11) Ultraviolet radiation: 0~64 W/m²;

12) High/low oxygen: 5~30%;

13) High/low pressure: 50 kPa~atmospheric pressure

(All the above parameters can be custom-designed according to user requirements.)