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Appendix VIII. Details of whole chamber steady state subsystem<br />

The whole chamber steady state subsystem has been shown in Figure 4.15, section<br />

4.3.1.1 and its details are shown below.<br />

VIII.1 The CPAP chamber inlet temperature subsystem<br />

Figure VIII. 1 is the subsystem calculating the chamber inlet temperature. It is based on<br />

Eq. (3.5) and Eq. (3.6). Inputs to this subsystem are listed below.<br />

Input port number Input Unit<br />

1 Ambient air temperature °C<br />

2 CPAP pressure setting cmH2O<br />

3 Ambient air specific humidity In decimal<br />

The output is the chamber inlet temperature from ADU.<br />

Figure VIII. 1 CPAP chamber inlet temperature subsystem<br />

VIII.2 The CPAP chamber-water thermal balance subsystem<br />

The subsystem is created based on Eq. (3.49). The water thermal balance subsystem is<br />

mainly for producing steady state water temperature with the simplification that the<br />

water temperature does not change along with breath-induced flow fluctuation as long<br />

as all the settings stay unchanged. Another output is evaporation rate under such steady<br />

state which can be used in comparison with breath-induced fluctuating evaporation rate.<br />

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