MSc Renewable Energy and Clean Technology

(ReaCT)

EEEN60422 - Zero carbon Built Infrastructure

Session 2014 - 2015

Tutorial 2 Answers: De lamping

First of all, a reminder of the question:

The objectives of this tutorial are to give you practice in using the simple lighting
design equation and to allow you to assess the effect of changing the performance of
luminaires.

This tutorial sheet is centred round the luminaire calculation formula demonstrated in
Session 21. De lamping is discussed in Session 23.

Nlf (Number of light fittings) = Lwp . Awp / (LDL . UF . MF)

Where Lwp = lux level needed at working plane

Awp = area of working plane
LDL = Lighting Design lumens per fitting
UF = utilization factor (dimensionless)
MF = maintenance factor (dimensionless)

A lighting scheme makes use of 35 luminaires of LDL 4000 each, all mounted flush at
ceiling level. Each luminaire is fitted with two lamps of equal output – in other words, if
one lamp is removed, then the lumen output is reduced to 2000.

In this case, the utilisation factor is known to be 0.75, the area of working plane 200 m
and the assumed maintenance factor is 0.9.

The Estates Department argue that energy could be saved by carrying out some
delamping.
Calculate how many lamps could be removed without the Lwp value falling below 400
lux.

Solution:

1) On the basis of 2000 lux per lamp, first of all reduce the LDL value to 2000, and
then recalculate the number of lamps required using a Lwp value of 400 lux.

NLF = 400*200/ (2000*0.75*0.9)

= 59.25 lamps

10 lamps would have to be removed (rounding up).

In this example, 25 of the 35 luminaires would retain two lamps. This is entirely possible
in theory. In practice, the outcome would probably be a room with light patching on the
working plane, depending upon which lamps are removed. This might be nearly as bad
for the workers as working in reduced light. If I were forced to go down this road, I
would be inclined to delamp around the perimeter of the room (we are not give any room
dimensions in this case) in the hope of pleasing as many people as possible in the core
area.

If energy is to be saved, then the best fix is to change to low energy lamps / luminaries.
But this would of course cost money.

I really don’t like delamping.

2) As a matter of interest, rearranging the lumen equation to calculate the lux level in
the original lighting scheme gives

Lwp = (LDL . UF . MF)*Nlf /Awp

= (4000*0.75*0.9)*35 / 200

= 472 lux

So somebody got the original design wrong to begin within ( They would probably claim
that they had built in a margin of error...)