Portable battery-driven oxygen concentrators provide an alternative to the use of oxygen cylinders for treatment of hypoxemia during field anesthesia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the EverGo Portable Oxygen Concentrator (Respironics, Murrysville, Pennsylvania 15668, USA) with pulse-dose delivery for improvement of arterial oxygenation during anesthesia of wildlife. This conc...

In this paper we characterize the features of good packet routing schemes for input queued sparse crossbar based packet concentrators and propose a polling based routing algorithm which achieves near optimal performance. It has been shown by the authors of this paper that the performance of an input queued packet concentrator with different input and output packet rates can be modeled by a GI/D...

An increasing number of patients, mainly COPD and overlap-syndrome patients, simultaneously use home oxygen therapy and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) at night. Usually the oxygen source is a stationary concentrator. We report a patient who, without a medical recommendation, was using a portable oxygen concentrator during nocturnal NIV. In the laboratory, with the patient, we tested the portabl...

Concentrator solar cells have been proposed as an interesting way of reducing the cost of photovoltaic electricity. However, in order to compete with conventional solar modules it is necessary not only to reduce costs but also to evaluate and increase the present reliability. Concentrator solar cells work at higher temperature, solar radiation and current stress than conventional solar cells an...

ISSN: 0267-8292 (Print) 1366-5855 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tlct20 Dye-integrated cholesteric photonic luminescent solar concentrator Andrea L. Rodarte, Fredy Cisneros, Linda S. Hirst & Sayantani Ghosh To cite this article: Andrea L. Rodarte, Fredy Cisneros, Linda S. Hirst & Sayantani Ghosh (2014) Dye-integrated cholesteric photonic luminescent solar concentrator...

The primary advantage of a PV concentrator is that concentrating light allows a significant reduction in the area of solar cell coverage, the main cost driver in a flat plate system. PV systems, whether flat plate or concentrating, normally have groups of solar cells connected in series in order to increase voltage and limit current. However, low illumination on a single cell proportionally red...

An oxygen concentrator based on a zeolitic molecular sieve has been used to supply piped oxygen in a District General Hospital; such oxygen contains 5% argon. If concentrator oxygen is used in the closed circuit, argon accumulates. The present investigation defines the extent and time course of argon accumulation in partially and fully closed breathing systems. A theoretical model is presented ...

This paper presents a mirror symmetrical dielectric totally internally reflecting concentrator (MSDTIRC). Here, its electrical and optical performances are investigated for building integrated photovoltaic applications. This concentrator is designed to tackle two issues: (i) providing sufficient gain in order to increase the electrical output of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system and (ii) reducin...

We report a microfluidic device for rapid and efficient concentration of micro/nanoparticles with direct current dielectrophoresis (DC DEP). The concentrator is composed of a series of microchannels constructed with PDMS-insulating microstructures for efficiently focusing the electric field in the flow direction to provide high field strength and gradient. The location of the trapped and concen...

Parabolic dish solar concentrators are very expensive devices with a cost of up to a half of the total cost of a solar power station. The specific technology of parabolic mirror manufacturing makes the decrease of the cost very problematic. Even in mass production the cost of a parabolic mirror is estimated as $500 per square meter. There is another way to make a parabolic concentrator by appro...