GAS COOLED PEBBLE BED REACTOR FOR A LARGE CENTRAL STATION. Reactor Design and Feasibility Study

An optimum econonic design for a high temperature, helium cooled, central station reactor power plant of about 400 Mw of electric power was determined. The core consists of a randomly packed bed of unclad graphite spheres, approximately one in. in diameter, impregnated with U/sup 233/ and thorium such that a conversion ratio of near unity is achieved. The high temperature helium permits steam conditions, at the turbine throttle, of 1000 deg F and 1450 psia. (auth

Improving pulse oximetry accuracy by removing motion artifacts from photoplethysmograms using relative sensor motion: a preliminary study

To expand applicability of pulse oximetry in low-acuity ambulatory settings, the impact of motion on extracted parameters as saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate (PR) needs to be reduced. We hypothesized that sensor motion relative to the skin can be used as an artifact reference in a correlation canceller to reduce motion artifacts in photoplethysmograms (PPGs), in order to improve SpO2 and PR measurements. This has been proven true in in vivo measurements, where forehead PPGs have been obtained while subjects are walking on a treadmill and relative sensor motion has been measured via self-mixing interferometry. By using relative motion in a normalized least mean square algorithm, the standard deviation of SpO2 and PR errors is on average reduced by 31 % and 13 %, respectivel