title: A Solid Trap and Thermal Desorption System with Application to a Medical Electronic Nose.
abstract: In this paper, a solid trap/thermal desorption-based odorant gas condensation system has been designed and implemented for measuring low concentration odorant gas. The technique was successfully applied to a medical electronic nose system. The developed system consists of a flow control unit, a temperature control unit and a sorbent tube. The theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that gas condensation, together with the medical electronic nose system can significantly reduce the detection limit of the nose system and increase the system's ability to distinguish low concentration gas samples. In addition, the integrated system can remove the influence of background components and fluctuation of operational environment. Even with strong disturbances such as water vapour and ethanol gas, the developed system can classify the test samples accurately.
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. myxxtao@126.com.|Mianyang Vocational and Technical College, MianYang, Sichuan, 621000, P.R. China. myxxtao@126.com.
authors.forename: Xuntao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. fengchuntian@cqu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Fengchun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. syang@uoguelph.ca.|School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1. syang@uoguelph.ca.
authors.forename: Simon X
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. liqi508@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. yanjia119@163.com.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P.R. China. majw527@yahoo.com.cn.
authors.forename: Jianwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Machacek
keywords: Medical electronic nose; antidisturbance; detection limit; solid trap/thermal desorption