Lighting and energy performance for an office using high frequency dimming controls

@article{citeulike:573847, abstract = {Artificial lighting is one of the major electricity consuming items in many non-domestic buildings. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in incorporating daylight in architectural and building designs to reduce the electricity use and enhance greener building developments. This paper presents field measurements for a fully air conditioned open plan office using a photoelectric dimming system. Electric lighting load, indoor illuminance levels and daylight availability were systematically measured and analyzed. The general features and characteristics of the results such as electric lighting energy savings and transmitted daylight illuminance in the forms of frequency distributions and cumulative frequency distributions are presented. Daylighting theories and regression models have been developed and discussed. It has been found that energy savings in electric lighting were over 30\% using the high frequency dimming controls. The results from the study would be useful and applicable to other office spaces with similar architectural layouts and daylight linked lighting control systems.}, author = {Li, Danny H. and Lam, Tony N. and Wong, S. L. }, citeulike-article-id = {573847}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2005.06.016}, journal = {Energy Conversion and Management}, keywords = {energy, lighting}, month = {June}, number = {9-10}, pages = {1133--1145}, posted-at = {2006-04-03 09:56:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Lighting and energy performance for an office using high frequency dimming controls}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2005.06.016}, volume = {47}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:573847 L3 - citeulike-article-id:573847 TI - Lighting and energy performance for an office using high frequency dimming controls JF - Energy Conversion and Management VL - 47 IS - 9-10 SP - 1133 EP - 1145 N2 - Artificial lighting is one of the major electricity consuming items in many non-domestic buildings. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in incorporating daylight in architectural and building designs to reduce the electricity use and enhance greener building developments. This paper presents field measurements for a fully air conditioned open plan office using a photoelectric dimming system. Electric lighting load, indoor illuminance levels and daylight availability were systematically measured and analyzed. The general features and characteristics of the results such as electric lighting energy savings and transmitted daylight illuminance in the forms of frequency distributions and cumulative frequency distributions are presented. Daylighting theories and regression models have been developed and discussed. It has been found that energy savings in electric lighting were over 30% using the high frequency dimming controls. The results from the study would be useful and applicable to other office spaces with similar architectural layouts and daylight linked lighting control systems. KW - energy KW - lighting AU - Li, Danny AU - Lam, Tony AU - Wong, SL PY - 2006/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2005.06.016 ER -