Lighting 1

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Electroenergetics

Synopsis:

Light and environment. Relations between light quantities. Methods of objective photometry. Light field. Evaluation of lighting spatial properties. Computation of light quantities and luminous flux distribution. Basic theory of colour. Electrical light sources, parameters, properties and application.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Light and environment. Light field

2. Luminance of a beam. Relations between photometric quantities

3. Measuring of light quantities. Methods of objective photometry

4. Integral characteristics of light field and its practical utilization

5. Evaluation of lighting spatial properties

6. Measuring of integral characteristics

7. Integral characteristics and computation methods

8. Luminous flux and computation methods

9. Solution of luminous flux distribution

10. Multilevel reflection

11. Theory of colour

12. Quality of colour perception. Colour rendering index

13. Sorting of light sources. Incandescent lamps and tungsten halogen lamps

14. Discharge light sources. Fluorescent lamps. High pressure mercury and sodium lamps

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Computation of light quantities and solid angles

2. Measuring of luminance distribution in a given interior

3. Verifying of integral characteristics receivers and their properties

4. Measuring of integral characteristics in interior

5. Analysis of light sources spectral emission

6. Computing of integral characteristics in point type and line type light field

7. Computing of integral characteristics in area type light field

8. Computing of luminous flux from given luminous intensity distribution

9. Computing of luminous flux distribution for point type light source

10. Computing of equivalent reflection factor of concave surface

11. Analysis of multilevel reflection in block. Computing of utilization and configuration factor

12. Measuring of light chromaticity coordinates

13. Measuring of luminous intensity distribution using goniophotometer

14. Measuring of luminous flux of light sources and luminaires

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1.The IESNA Lighting Handbook, Ninth Edition, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, New York, 2000.

ISBN 0-87995-150-8

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Heavy-current Engineering - Electroenergetics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Technological Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electric Drives- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electrical Engineering Applications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)