Warning! Fire in the ICU

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Rispoli ◽  
Michele Iannuzzi ◽  
Edoardo De Robertis ◽  
Ornella Piazza ◽  
Giuseppe Servillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Alarm System ◽  
Hospital Emergency ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Uninterruptible Power Supply ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Emergency Procedures ◽  
Power Failure ◽  
Uninterruptible Power

AbstractAt 5:30 pm on December 17, 2010, shortly after a power failure, smoke filled the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Federico II University Hospital in Naples, Italy, triggering the hospital emergency alarm system. Immediately, staff began emergency procedures and alerted rescue teams. All patients were transferred without harm. The smoke caused pharyngeal and conjunctival irritation in some staff members. After a brief investigation, firefighters discovered the cause of the fire was a failure of the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).RispoliF, IannuzziM, De RobertisE, PiazzaO, ServilloG, TufanoR. Warning! Fire in the ICU. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2014;29(3):1-2.

Information Technology in Circuit Design of On-Line UPS

2014 ◽  
Vol 886 ◽  
pp. 505-508
Author(s):  
Chun Juan Han ◽  
Fa Cheng Rui ◽  
Sheng Liu ◽  
Shou Qin Tang
Keyword(s):  
Circuit Design ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Uninterruptible Power Supply ◽  
Computer Communication ◽  
Power Failure ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
On Line ◽  
Quality And Reliability ◽  
Uninterruptible Power

Uninterruptible Power Supply plays an important role in critical load, such as: computer, communication system and hospital. They can provide reliable and pure power supply for loads neither power good or not. With the best performance, on- Line UPS provider most sufficient protection for loads power failure in various UPS. With the continuous development of power electronics technology and information industry, this article design a high quality and reliability UPS to meet modern development of science and technology.

scholarly journals DC UPS for Critical Loads

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Ganesh S ◽  
Chiranjit Ghosh T ◽  
Kokilasree R ◽  
Nandhakumar M ◽  
Md Haroon Alim T
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Uninterruptible Power Supply ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Power Failure ◽  
Switching Losses ◽  
Dc Power ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Switched Mode Power Supply ◽  
Uninterruptible Power

<p>The usual way to avoid a computer shutdown during a mains failure is to connect an  uninterruptible power supply system (UPS), which can be suitably modified and fitted inside the computer cabinet by the use of proposed methodology known as a dc UPS.  Conventional desk top UPS systems store electricity in form of chemical energy in batteries and when ever mains fail the batteries provide DC power which is then converter to ac by inverter and then fed to the computer in order to save critical data.  Thus power from mains or from UPS is fed to switched mode power supply unit which converts it to dc to  supply the computer motherboard and accessories.  Leaving the case of the computer powered by mains, duing power failure the dc power is unnecessarily converted to ac and then to dc again in SMPS hence high switching losses and heat is produced there by making the entire system very lowe efficient.  In this work it is proposed to directly feed the dc power from the battery to the computer SMPS system by building a UPS arrangement within the computer system.  This not noly saves space, it is highly efficient compared to the conventional ups system, easy to carry, low cost and reliable since there is no change over operation is required/.  A complete design of an ac to dc power supply with an internal dc UPS is presented in this paper. . A prototype has been fully developed and tested as a PC power supply. Thus the result is achieved at full power about 6-8 minutes.</p>

scholarly journals Uninterruptible Power Supply Improves Precision and External Validity of Telomere Length Measurement via qPCR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waylon J. Hastings ◽  
Dan T.A. Eisenberg ◽  
Idan Shalev
Keyword(s):  
Telomere Length ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
External Validity ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Amplification Efficiency ◽  
Uninterruptible Power Supply ◽  
Uninterruptible Power ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Technical challenges associated with telomere length (TL) measurements have prompted concerns regarding their utility as a biomarker of aging. Several factors influence TL assessment via qPCR, the most common measurement method in epidemiological studies, including storage conditions and DNA extraction method. Here, we tested the impact of power supply during the qPCR assay. Momentary fluctuations in power can affect the functioning of high-performance electronics, including real-time thermocyclers. We investigated if mitigating these fluctuations by using an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) influenced TL assessment via qPCR. Samples run with a UPS had significantly lower standard deviation (p < 0.001) and coefficient of variation (p < 0.001) across technical replicates than those run without a UPS. UPS usage also improved exponential amplification efficiency at the replicate, sample, and plate levels. Together these improvements translated to increased performance across metrics of external validity including correlation with age, within-person correlation across tissues, and correlation between parents and offspring.

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