Experimental Identification of Heating Process from Hyperthermic Intra-Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) Equipment

摘要

Peritoneal Carcinomatosis (PC) carries a worse prognosis than other sites of systemic metastases. The combination of complete cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is on the verge of becoming the gold-standard treatment of PC, when feasible. In order to develop a HIPEC equipment, with complex inflow distribution system having multiple nozzles and a multipoint temperature measurement system, model based techniques will be used by the authors in order to design heating and flow controllers. Thus a functional model is needed for the concerned process such that the simulated model and the behavior of the real system coincide. This paper presents the experimental identification of the heater used on each of the flow channels that result in a transfer function model for the heating process. Also the model for the temperature sensor is obtained.