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Airplane comfort and dryness

28.10.2001

An adult human is 60% water. With exhaled air and evaporation through the skin, each of us releases about 100 ml of water per hour - half a glass.

Therefore, in a Boeing that takes 350 passengers on board and delivers them from London to Sydney in 17 hours, approximately 600 liters of water accumulates in the gap between the outer durable shell and the inner skin, condensing on cold metal. This does not benefit aircraft structures and cables laid between the walls. It is believed that due to water condensation in the hull, a DC-11 liner of the Swiss company Swissair could have died a few years ago off the coast of America. Sometimes the moisture accumulated in the tail unit freezes and the rudders stop turning.

It is also important that the humidity in the cabin drops to 20%, while 40% is considered comfortable humidity. The Swedish company CTT Systems has developed an installation that removes this problem. Air from the cabin is passed through a moisture absorber - silica gel and enters the gap between the walls. There, dry air picks up moisture condensed on the walls and returns it to the passenger compartment.

So far, the new installations, costing from 40 to 120 thousand dollars, depending on the size of the liner, have been installed on their aircraft by KLM, Swissair and Lufthansa.

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