Light & Engineering 26 (3)

Volume 26
Date of publication 09/28/2018
Pages 143-149

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On the Effectiveness of Modern Low-pressure Amalgam Lamps. L&E 26 (3) 2018

Articles authors:

Michiel van der Meer, Fred van Lierop, Dmitry V. Sokolov

Ph.D. Since 2000 he works in the Development Central Department of Philips Company, since 2004 – in the UV lamp field, and, at present, – in the UV diode new application field

Ph.D., chemical engineer. During 25 years he worked in different divisions of Philips Company, (Holland, Belgium, the USA and China) in the field of light source development and production. Since 2011 he is the owner of F&Consulting Company. At present, he is the chief scientific specialist of UV Lamp Consulting Company (USA)

Dmitry V. Sokolov, Ph.D. in Tech. Science. Head of the Lighting Engineering Department of NPO LIT

Abstract

A lot of attention is paid to the efficiency questions of modern amalgam lamps of low pressure in connection with more and more growing relevance of increasing energy efficiency of installations for water, air and surface disinfection. The real efficiency of a radiation source, as well as of the whole UV disinfection system, is an operational parameter much important for the customers. In this work, factors influencing efficiency of low pressure lamps are considered in detail. It is shown that efficiency of the modern amalgam lamps at the beginning of their lifetime is about (30–40)%.

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