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Table 1 Emergency pack requirements for a 20 year old healthy male of 70 kg to survive an entrapment in 10 m3 space with healthy weight loss and maintaining CO2 concentration at initial level.

From: Key considerations for a pre-emergency survival pack: a hypothetical case study

 

Daily

14 days

Example of pre-Emergency Pack for 14 days

Energy

1190 kcal

16660 kcal

70 bars of "commercially available 20 g protein bar"

Carbohydrate [2]

130 g

1820 g

 

Protein [2]

56 g

784 g

 

Fat

49.5 g

693 g

 

Sodium [2]

500 mg

7000 mg

 

Water [3]

2.5 L

35 L

35 L

CO 2 to be scrubbed

0.637 m3

8.918 m3

24 kg of LiOH