An Overview of Recent Trends in Lighting Technology

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An Overview of Recent Trends in Lighting Technology

Akash Gowda LV1, Ashwini M1,

Maheshan C M2

1 1 2Assistant Professor Department Of Electrical

Chandan G , Sindhu V

1

UG Scholars

Department Of Electrical Engineering University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering Bangalore University K.R.Circle, Bengaluru-563101

Engineering

University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering Bangalore

University

      1. ircle, Bengaluru-563101

        Abstract -This paper presents an overview of recent advances and trends in indoor as well as outdoor lighting technology. Energy efficient lighting and its conservation is more concern in recent years.This can be achieved through the usage of energy efficient lamps at home, schools, colleges, hospitals, research organizations, businesses and public places. In this paper an overview of different types of bulbs used at different places is discussed with respect to wattage, lumen, lux, efficacy, lifespan, color rendering index. The implication of this study reveals to use energy efficient lighting to save energy as well as save environment.

        KeywordsLumen, Lux, Life span, Wattage, efficacy , CRI, Efficiency, Optical Characteristics

        1. INTRODUCTION

          Lighting or brightening depicts the manner in which a region is made known to the natural eye through either common or counterfeit light. Regular light radiates either from the sun, stars or fire. The force of these sources shifts as indicated by the hour of day and the area. Right now counterfeit light sources can be utilized as an enhancement or substitution of common light.

          Counterfeit light is comprised of trend setting innovation that takes after regular light (daylight). It has changed human culture. It liberates us from obscurity and permits us to light our homes and networks. Counterfeit light is commonly handily controlled to accomplish the necessary lighting result. The light can be expanded or diminished, coordinated, engaged and shaded. This permits lighting to make a scope of impacts as indicated by the necessities of a space. The lighting framework has a significant effect on the light quality and lighting vitality utilization. Ordinarily the lighting framework can be isolated into two sorts: indoor lighting and open air lighting. In this paper, the different sorts of counterfeit light sources are quickly clarified with their qualities [1].

          Albeit counterfeit lighting can make a decent compositional light condition, fake light sources depend on a huge sum traditional vitality, which causes design lighting to involve a colossal piece of building vitality utilization. Lighting power devours 17% of intensity the State lattice every year and expends 1.7 million barrels of oil for every day. Along these

          lines we should utilize counterfeit lighting and pick reasonable light source to diminish the vitality devoured by lighting under the state of fulfilling a decent design light condition. The goal of this paper is to guarantee the vitality effective lighting to spare vitality just as spare condition.

        2. INDOOR LIGHTING

          Without proper lighting interior architecture cannot be experienced to the fullest. Good lighting assures a warm, inviting and functional atmosphere in your home. Hence selection of proper lighting is the key element in interior design. Some of the most common indoor light bulbs are incandescent bulbs, which look like a traditional light bulb. Generally, the input for these bulbs is either 40W or 60W. But there are other kinds of indoor light bulbs as well, such as CFLs and LEDs. Keep in mind that the wattages listed for the CFLs and LEDs correspond to the 40W incandescent bulb. This means that for a lamp that takes a 40W incandescent, you could also use a 9W CFL or a 7W LED. This will allow you to easily compare the bulbs to one another.

          A. Incadescent Bulbs

          Figure 1.Incandescent bulb

          The glowing light has had a similar plan for more than a long time since Thomas Edison developed it! It delivers light when a slender wire called a tungsten fiber is warmed by power going through it making it so hot that it begins to shine brilliantly. This discharges a great deal of warmth and the bulbs get hot to the touch, which means this bulb is wasteful. Numerous nations, including the United States, are right now passing enactment prohibiting the offer of these lights since they are so wasteful [2].

          The characteristics of 40 watts incandescent bulb are shown below.

          C. LED Bulbs

          TABLE II.1

          Wattage in watts

          Lumen

          CRI

          Life Span in hours

          Efficacy in lm/W

          Efficiency in %

          40

          290

          100

          1000-2000

          12.6

          1.9

          Wattage in watts

          Lumen

          CRI

          Life Span in hours

          Efficacy in lm/W

          Efficiency in %

          40

          290

          100

          1000-2000

          12.6

          1.9

          General Data of Incandescent Bulbs

          B. Fluroscent and CFL Bulbs

          Figure 2. T5 linear fluorescent tube

          Figure 3. CFL light bulb

          Glaring lights utilize an extraordinary idle gas and a powder covering within their bulbs to create lights. The electrical flow pushes through the gas and energies its molecules. After each cycle the iotas discharge their vitality in little blasts, which at that point hit the particles of the powder covering [3]. The covering iotas respond similarly, however the vitality they discharge is in reality light. This procedure utilizes power proficiently.

          Minimal Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs) are unquestionably more proficient than the standard brilliant bulb. CFLs work by running power through gas inside the loops, energizing that gas, and delivering light. There is a covering on the spirals, which makes this light white. These bulbs don't get close to as hot as the brilliant bulbs [4].The specifications of fluorescent and CFL bulbs are shown below.

          TABLE II.2

          Wattage

          Lumen

          CRI

          Lifespan in hours

          Efficacy in lm/W

          Efficiency

          Fluorescent lamp

          8

          400

          60

          7,500

          110

          15.6%

          CFL

          9

          500

          80

          10,000

          57

          7-10%

          Wattage

          Lumen

          CRI

          Lifespan in hours

          Efficacy in lm/W

          Efficiency

          Fluorescent lamp

          8

          400

          60

          7,500

          110

          15.6%

          CFL

          9

          500

          80

          10,000

          57

          7-10%

          General Data of Fluorescent and CFL Bulbs

          Figure 4. LED bulb

          In contrast to radiant and CFL bulbs, LED bulbs have moved into the innovative age. LEDs that produce white light work in a somewhat muddled manner and their innovation won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014! While these are the most effective bulbs to date, they are not without issues. In spite of the fact that the light they produce looks white, rcall that white light contains all the shades of the rainbow [5].

          LEDs contain a ton of blue light, a lot of which can effectually affect human well-being and untamed life.Some specifications of 7w LED bulb are shown below.

          TABLE II.3

          General Data of LED Bulbs

          Wattage in watts

          Lumen

          CRI

          Life Span in hours

          Efficacy in lm/W

          Efficiency in %

          7

          500

          100

          25,000

          320

          40-50

        3. OUTDOOR LIGHTING

          Open air lights (Outdoor) are typically not quite the same as those bulbs utilized inside in light of the fact that they should be a lot more splendid and last more. There are various sorts of lights utilized outside, and they each have advantages and disadvantages.

          1. Halogen Bulbs

            Figure 5. Halogen bulb

            Halogen bulbs are frequently found in homes as spotlights or floodlights, in vehicles as headlights, or at sports fields as arena lights. These bulbs work likewise to a brilliant bulb by running power through a tungsten fiber. Not at all like the brilliant, there is halogen gas inside the bulb. At the point when the tungsten consumes off the fiber, the gas re-stores it back onto the fiber to be reused. Halogen bulbs last any longer

            than glowing, yet these bulbs are a lot more brilliant and consume a lot more sultry than customary radiant bulbs [6].

            TABLE III.1

            General Data of Halogen Bulbs

            Wattage in watts

            Lumen

            CRI

            Life Span in hours

            Efficacy in lm/W

            Efficiency in %

            53

            920

            100

            1,500

            17.7

            2.6

          2. Metal Halide Bulbs

            Figure 6. Metal halide bulb

            Metal halide lights are usually utilized in streetlights, parking area lights, and arena lights. They are extremely brilliant and add to a ton of light contamination. They are genuinely effective. They produce exceptionally white light and have great shading version, implying that objects under these lights look their genuine nature [7].

            TABLE III.2

            General Data of Metal Halide Bulbs

            Wattage in watts

            Lumen

            CRI

            Life Span in hours

            Efficacy in lm/W

            Efficiency in %

            250

            21,250

            65

            24,000

            90

            12

          3. Low and High Pressure Sodium Vapour Bulbs

            Figure 7. Low Pressure Sodium Light Bulb

            Figure 8. High pressure sodium vaporlamp

            The low weight sodium (LPS) light works likewise to the HPS light. Rather than creating white light (all the shades of the rainbow), LPS lights produce only yellow light. While this light is genuinely productive, it takes a few minutes for the bulb to turn on. The light is extremely yellow-orange. This

            yellow light makes objects it is enlightening look an alternate shading or dark.

            The high weight sodium light (HPS) is the most generally utilized road light all through the world. It creates light by running power through a blend of gases, which delivers light. The light itself is favored on the grounds that it requires little support. These lights are genuinely effective. They require a long time to turn on totally and produce a yellow-orange sparkle [8].

            TABLE III.3

            General Data of Sodium Vapor Lamps

            Wattage in watts

            Lumen

            CRI

            Lifespan in hours

            Efficacy in lm/W

            Efficiency in %

            LPS

            20

            3,022

            -44

            50,000

            151

            15-29

            HPS

            150

            16,000

            21

            24,000

            90

            12-22

          4. Low and High Pressure Mercury Vapour Lamps

            Figure 9. Low pressure mercury vapor lamp diagram

            Figure 10. High pressure mercury vapor lamp

            Low weight mercury fume lights are an exceptionally proficient wellspring of UV light, especially short frequency UV light (254nm and 185nm). Regularly called germicidal or ozone assimilation lights, they are truly steady light sources. These kinds of lights are accessible in ozone creating and without ozone quartz, with an assortment of phosphors. Force supplies are likewise accessible for every light.

            A mercury fume light is a high-pressure, electric circular segment release light that gives extraordinary enlightenment over a chose scope of frequencies. Lights that transmit light by the entry of electric flow through a gas are called gas-release lights. These lights were first presented during the 1930s [9].

            TABLE III.4

            General Data of Mercury Vapor Lamps

            Watt age in watts

            Lume n

            CR I

            Lifespa n in

            hours

            Efficac y in

            lm/W

            Effici ency in %

            Mercury Vapor lamps

            250

            12,500

            45

            24,000

            35-65

            75-90

          5. LED Street Lamps

            Figure 11. LED Street light

            Driven advances have grown quickly lately and these bulbs are currently being incorporated into outside lighting arrangements. While the vitality investment funds are critical, LEDs produce a ton of blue light, a lot of which can effectually affect human well-being and untamed life [10].

            TABLE III.5

            General Data of LED Street Bulbs

            Wattage in watts

            Lumen

            CRI

            Life Span in hours

            Efficacy in lm/W

            Efficiency in %

            120

            17,180

            70

            50,000

            143

            40-60

            1. Phosphor-Converted Amber (PCA) LED Street Lamps:

              Figure 12. PCA LED street lamps

              PCALEDs have just been available for as far back as not many years. They utilize next to no vitality and have great shading version, however are still rather costly. A few urban areas have just introduced these lights on their roads.

            2. Narrow-Band Amber (NBA) LED Street Lamps:

          Figure 13. NBA LED street lamp

          Thin band golden (NBA) LED Street lights are a shiny new innovation. Instead of producing all the shades of the rainbow and a great deal of blue light, they discharge for the most part in the yellow. They despite everything have great shading version, implying that they don't make things look dim like LPS lights do [11]. Since this innovation is so new, these bulbs are not generally accessible and in that capacity, are as yet costly. They are extremely productive.

        4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

          TABLE IV.1

          Comparison of Various Lighting Technologies (Bulbs)

          500

          Type of Bulb

          Watta ge

          in watts

          Lume n

          CR I

          Life Span in hours

          Efficac y

          in lm/W

          Efficienc y

          in %

          Incandescent

          40

          290

          100

          1000-

          2000

          12.6

          1.9

          Fluorescent

          8

          400

          60

          7,500

          110

          15.6

          CFL

          9

          500

          80

          10,00

          0

          57

          7-10

          LED

          7

          100

          25,00

          0

          320

          40-50

          Halogen

          53

          920

          100

          1,500

          17.7

          2.6

          Metal Halide

          250

          21,250

          65

          24,00

          0

          90

          12

          Low pressure sodium lamp

          20

          3,022

          -44

          50,00

          0

          151

          15-29

          High pressure sodium lamp

          150

          16,000

          21

          24,00

          0

          90

          12-22

          Mercury Vapor lamps

          250

          12,500

          45

          24,00

          0

          35-65

          75-90

          LED street Lamp

          120

          17,180

          70

          50,00

          0

          143

          40-60

          From the TABLE IV.1 obviously all the lighting advances for example different bulbs utilized in late market have various qualities. Each of the luminaires have their own usefulness and various applications. Where the force utilization matters most at that point LED bulbs are utilized as they expend less

          force and are more proficient than different lights. In this way, LED's are utilized broadly in neighborhoods [12].

          The Street Lights likewise assumes a significant job in lighting the urban communities and towns during the evening time. There are distinctive lightning methods for those and typical family bulbs can't be utilized for those applications.

        5. CONCLUSION

Using a suitable and most efficient bulb for an application is must. Usage of non-suitable bulbs may lead to more energy consumption, early breakdown of the bulb or even may cause fault or inefficient lighting system.

In this paper discussions are done with respect to Wattage, Lumens, CRI, Efficacy, Efficiency and an Average life span of various bulbs. This helps one to select a suitable bulb for their applications. Different bulbs varying characteristics for example LED consumes less power, Incandescent bulb brightness is more than other bulbs and many more. And studying about these things are very important as they give full Insight about lighting design.

It tends to be inferred that utilizing a reasonable light for a specific application or need is important. As this prompts sparing more vitality and the expense of establishment of a lighting plan and furthermore maintains a strategic distance from wasteful lighting framework which may prompt early breakdown of bulbs, loss of intensity, sporadic brilliance and so on which isn't alluring.

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