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airflow will have a higher potentiality to vaporize water on the surface. This is<br />

defined as the velocity coincidence factor.<br />

4. Since the specific humidity of airflow from the humidifier chamber is<br />

fluctuating, the dew point of the airflow can sometimes be higher than the inner<br />

surface temperature and sometimes lower. In this case the net condensation can<br />

be heavier than that of the steady flow even when the average humidity of the<br />

fluctuating flow is the same as that of the steady flow. This is attributed to the<br />

fact that the condensation rate is 1.2 times the evaporation rate (see Section 3.6).<br />

This can be defined as the condensation-to-evaporation coefficient factor.<br />

These factors will be elaborated on below.<br />

6.3.1 Influence of breathing induced flow rate fluctuation on the chamber<br />

evaporation<br />

Figure 6.5 Comparison of total amount of air flowing through the system in a 6 seconds breathe<br />

cycle time between steady flow, normal and deep breathing added situations<br />

Figure 6.5 shows the total amount of airflow in 6 seconds under steady flow, normal<br />

breathing and deep breathing added flows. It can be seen that the normal breathing flow<br />

amount is slightly smaller than steady flow. The amount is greater for deep breathing<br />

with reverse flow but even smaller when there is no reverse flow. This is because of the<br />

absolute flow amount factor.<br />

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