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An apparatus and process are used to disinfect a fluid line system of a medical apparatus. A heating coefficient, passive cooling coefficient, and ready-to-use time are considered when defining a target curve of fluid line system temperature. The heating coefficient indicates a time-dependent rise of system temperature when the fluid line system is heated. The passive cooling coefficient indicates a time-dependent decrease of system temperature when the fluid line system is passively cooled. The ready-to-use time is a time at which system temperature must be less than or equal to a maximum ready-to-use temperature, after the last time the temperature falls below a minimum disinfection temperature, so that the medical apparatus is ready-to-use after disinfection. Before a minimum value of target lethality is reached, and before the last time the temperature falls below the minimum disinfection temperature, cooling occurs by passive cooling by stopping or interrupting heating.

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