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Figure 6.6 Comparison of evaporation rate averaged in a 6 seconds breathe cycle time between<br />

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

Figure 6.6 shows the average evaporation rate comparison between steady state flow<br />

and breathing added fluctuating flows. Without reverse flow, the evaporation rate drops<br />

when breath load increases due to both the flow amount factor and the concavity factor.<br />

When the pressure setting is 4cmH2O and breathing is deep, reverse flow occurs, and<br />

the average evaporation rate is almost the same as that of the steady flow. This is<br />

because the larger absolute amount of airflow offsets the concavity factor. Overall, deep<br />

breathing plus reverse flow do not significantly increase the average evaporation rate<br />

while deep breathing without reverse flow reduces the average evaporation rate.<br />

6.3.2 Influence of breathing induced flow rate fluctuation on airflow temperature<br />

in HADT vs. different tube heating<br />

Figure 6.7 shows the airflow average temperature along the HADT between the reverse<br />

flow and non-reverse-flow situations with different tube heating. When there is no tube<br />

heating, the temperature of the airflow from the chamber is, in most cases, lower than<br />

that of the reverse flow from the mask. Therefore, when there is reverse flow, the<br />

average air temperatures in the last few lumps are higher than when there is no reverse<br />

flow. However, when the HADT is heated and if the air from the humidifier chamber<br />

has a temperature similar to the exhaled air when reaching the last few lumps, the<br />

difference is of significance. The HADT wall temperature difference in these lumps is<br />

153

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