Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 194, Issue -, Pages 201-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.04.033
Keywords
Artificial lighting; Building retrofitting; Daylight harvesting; Energy efficiency; Energy savings; LED luminaires; Zero Energy Building; Photosensor; School building; Sustainability
Funding
- action Strengthening Post-Doctoral Research, the resources of Operational Program Human Resources Development Program, Education and Lifelong Learning priority axis 6, 8, 9
- European Social Fund ESF
- Greek government
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The energy consumption for the artificial lighting in school buildings is one of the main consumers of electricity. In Greece, there is a large number of school buildings with quite old lighting systems using luminaires with T8 and sometimes T12 fluorescent lamps and degradated translucent diffusers. Due to the economic crisis, the public sector failed to invest in LEDs and although daylight is adequate during the year, the adoption of control technology is rather slow. The paper, using a typical classroom of a Greek public school, examines a number of lighting technologies (with AC and DC supply) together with two daylight harvesting systems. The first one uses one stand-alone photosensor per luminaire while the second one sensor per control zone, in an effort to calculate energy savings and light adequacy. The dimming curves of the DC LEDs were measured along with the installed power of the photosensors. The results show that the existing 90.5 kWh(p)/m(2) of annual lighting primary energy consumption can be reduced to 0.55 kWh(p)/m(2). The maximum annual reduction of CO2 emissions was 32.44 kgr/m(2 )for classroom areas, which is translated to 201929 to for the whole country. It is evident that the path to Zero Energy School Buildings goes through the mandatory use of daylight controls. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available