Design of Lighting Schemes

 i. Illumination Level:

This is the most vital factor because a sufficient illumination is the basic means whereby we are able to see our surroundings.

For each type of work there is a range of brightness most favourable to output i.e. which causes minimum fatigue and gives maximum output in terms of quality depends upon:

(i) The size of the objects to be seen and its distance from the observer. Greater the distance of the object from observer and smaller the size of the object, greater will be the illumination required for its proper perception and

(ii) Contrast between the object and back-ground-greater the contrast between the colour of the object and its background, greater will be the illumination required to distinguish the object properly. Objects which are seen for longer duration of time required more illumination than those for casual work. Similarly moving objects required more illumination than those for stationary objects.

ii. Uniformity of Illumination:

The human eye adjusts itself automatically to the brightness within the field of vision. If there is a lack of uniformity, pupil or iris of the eye has to adjust more frequently and thus fatigue is caused to the eye and productivity is reduced. It has been found that visual performance is best if the range of brightness within the field of vision is not greater than 3:1, which can be achieved by employing general lighting.

iii. Shadows:

In lighting installations, formation of long and hard shadows causes fatigue of eyes and therefore is considered to be a shortcoming. Complete absence of shadows altogether again does not necessarily mean an ideal condition of lighting instillations. Contrary, perhaps to popular opinion, a certain amount of shadow is desirable in artificial lighting as it helps to give shape to the solid objects and makes them easily recognised.

iv. Glare:

It may be direct or reflected i.e. it may come direct from the light source or it may be reflected brightness such as from a desk top, nickeled machine parts, or calendared paper.

Direct glare from a source of light is more common, and is more often a hindrance to vision. A glance at the sun proves that an extremely bright light source causes acute eye discomfort. Reflected glare is glare which comes to the eyes as glint or reflection of the light source in some polished surface.

v. Mounting Height:

In case of direct lighting it depends upon the type of building and type of lighting scheme employed. For rooms of large floor area, the luminaries should be mounted close to ceiling as possible. In case of indirect and semi-indirect lighting, it would be desirable to suspend luminaries enough down from ceiling to give uniform illumination.

vi. Spacing of Luminaries:

The distance of light source from the wall should be equal to one half the distances between two adjacent light sources. The distance between light fittings should not exceed 1.5 times the mounting height.

Different lighting schemes

 Different lighting schemes may be classfied as:

(i) direct lighting, (ii) indirect lighting, (iii) semi-direct lighting, (iv) semi-indirect lighting, and (v) general diffusing systems.

(i) Direct Lighting
As the name indicates, in the form of lighting, the light from the source falls directly on the object or the surface to be illuminated. It is most commonly used type of lighting scheme. In this lighting scheme more than 90 percent of total light flux is made to fall directly on the working plane with the help of deep reflectors. Though it is most efficient but causes hard shadows and glare. It is mainly used for industrial and general out-door lighting.

(ii) Indirect Lighting

In this light scheme more than 90 percent of total light flux is thrown upwards to the ceiling for diffuse re­flection by using inverted or bowl reflectors. In such a system the ceiling acts as the light source, and the glare is reduced to mini­mum. The resulting illumination is softer and more diffused, the shadows are less prominent and the appearance of the room is much improved over that which results from direct lighting. It is used for decoration purposes in cinemas theatres and hotels etc. and in workshops where large machines and other obstructions would cause trouble some shadows of direct lighting is employed.

(iii) Semi-direct System

In this lighting scheme 60 to 90 percent of the total light flux is made to fall downwards directly with the help of semi-direct reflectors, remaining light is used to illuminate the ceiling and walls. Such a lighting system is best suited to rooms with high ceilings where a high level of uniformally distributed illumination is desirable. Glare in such units is avoided by employing diffusing globed which not only improve the brightness towards the eye but improve the efficiency of the systems with reference to working place.

(iv) Semi-indirect Lighting

In this lighting scheme 60 to 90 percent of total light flux is thrown upwards to the ceiling for diffuse reflection and the rest reaches the working plane directly except for some absorption by the bowl. This lighting scheme is with soft shadows and glare free. It is mainly used for indoor light decoration purposes.

(v) General Diffusing System
In this system, luminaries are employed which have almost equal light distribution downwards and upwards.

ADVANTAGES OF PER UNIT SYSTEM

 

PER UNIT SYSTEM

The per-unit system expressed the voltages, currents, powers, impedances, and other electrical quantities basis by the equation:

Quantity per unit (pu) = Actual value/ Base value of quantity

ADVANTAGES OF PER UNIT SYSTEM

1. While performing calculations, referring quantities from one side of the transformer to the other side serious errors may be committed. This can be avoided by using per unit system.
2. Per unit impedances of electrical equipment of similar type usually lie within a narrow range, when the equipment ratings are used as base values.
3. Manufacturers usually specify the impedances of machines and transformers in per unit or percent of name plate ratings.
4. Transformers can be replaced by their equivalent series impedances.
5. Reduced calculations in three-phase systems.
6. For apparatus of the same general type the p.u. and volt drops or losses are in the same order, regardless of size.

PER UNIT CONVERSION PROCEDURE OF SINGLE PHASE

1. Pick a VA base for the entire system, S_base
2. Pick a voltage base for each different voltage level, V_base.
3. Voltage bases are related by transformer turns ratios.
4. Voltages are line to neutral.
5. Calculate the impedance base, Z_base = (V_base)²/S_base
6. Calculate the current base, I_base =V_base/Z_base
7. Convert actual values to per unit
8. Convert to per unit (p.u.) (many problems are already in per unit)
9. Solve
10. Convert back to actual as necessary

 FLUORESCENT LAMP (LOW-PRESSURE MERCURY VAPOR LAMP)

Fluorescent lamp is a hot cathode low-pressure mercury vapor lamp;

Construction 

It consists of a long horizontal tube, The tube contains small quantity of argon gas and certain amount of mercury, at a pressure of 2.5 mm of mercury. The construction of fluorescent lamp is shown in Fig.  Normally, low-pressure mercury vapor lamps suffer from low efficiency and they produce an objectionable colored light. Such drawback is overcome by coating the inside of the tube with fluorescent powders. They are in the form of solids, which are usually knows as phosphors.

A glow starter switch contains small quantity of argon gas, having a small cathode glow lamp with bimetallic strip is connected in series with the electrodes, which puts the electrodes directly across the supply at the time of starting. A choke is connected in series that acts as ballast when the lamp is running, and it provides a voltage impulse for starting. A capacitor of 4μF is connected across the starter 

 Working 

At the time of starting, When supply is switched on, the starter terminals are open circuited and full supply voltage appeared across these terminals, due to low resistance of electrodes and choke coil. The small quantity of argon gas gets ionized, which establishes an arc with a starting glow. This glow warms up the bimetallic strip thus glow starts gets short circuited. Hence, the two electrodes come in series and are connected across the supply voltage. Now, the two electrodes get heated and start emitting electrons due to the flow of current through them. These electrons collide with the argon atoms present in the long tube discharge that takes place through the argon gas. So, in the beginning, the lamp starts conduction with argon gas as the temperature increases, the mercury changes into vapor form and takes over the conduction of current. In the mean time, the starter potential reaches to zero and the bimetallic strip gets cooling down. As a result, the starter terminals will open. This results breaking of the series circuit. A very high voltage around 1,000 V is induced,  this induced voltage is quite sufficient to break down the long gap. Thus, more number of electrons collide with argon and mercury vapor atoms. The excited atom of mercury gives UV radiation, which fall on  fluorescent material thus emitted light.

Advantages of fluorescent lamp 

The fluorescent lamp has the following advantages:

 o High efficiency.

 o The life of the lamp is three times of the ordinary filament lamp. 

o The quality of the light obtained is much superior. 

o Less chances of glare.

 o These lamps can be mounted on low ceiling, where other light sources would be unsatisfactory. 

disadvantages: 

o The initial cost is high because of choke and starter. 

o The starting time as well as the light output of the lamp will increases because of low ambient temperature.

 o Because of the presence of choke, these lamps suffer from magnetic humming and may cause disturbance.

 o The stroboscopic effect of this lamp is objectionable.

Illumination

 Nature of light 

Light is a form of electromagnetic energy radiated from a body and human eye is capable of receiving it. Light is a prime factor in the human life as all activities of human being ultimately depend upon the light.

TERMS USED IN ILLUMINATION 

The following terms are generally used in illumination. 

Color

 The energy radiation of the heated body is monochromatic, i.e. the radiation of only one wavelength emits specific color. The wavelength of visible light lies between UNIT 1 4,000 and 7,500 Å. The color of the radiation corresponding to the wavelength is shown in Fig. 6.1. 

Light: 

It is defined as the radiant energy from a hot body that produces the visual sensation upon the human eye. It is expressed in lumen-hours and it analogous to watthours, which denoted by the symbol ‘Q’.

 Luminous flux: 

It is defined as the energy in the form of light waves radiated per second from a luminous body. It is represented by the symbol ‘φ’ and measured in lumens. 

Ex: Suppose the luminous body is an incandescent lamp. 

The total electrical power input to the lamp is not converted to luminous flux, some of the power lost through conduction, convection, and radiation, etc. Afraction of the remaining radiant flux is in the form of light waves lies in between the visual range of wavelength, i.e. between 4,000 and 7,000 Å, as shown in Fig

Solid angle 

Solid angle is the angle subtended at a point in space by an area, i.e., the angle enclosed in the volume formed by numerous lines lying on the surface and meeting at the point (Fig. 6.5). It is usually denoted by symbol ‘ω’ and is measured in steradian.

Luminous intensity

 Luminous intensity in a given direction is defined as the luminous flux emitted by the source per unit solid angle

 Luminous flux emitting from the source

It is denoted by the symbol ‘I’ and is usually measured in ‘candela’. Let ‘F’ be the luminous flux crossing a spherical segment of solid angle ‘ω’. Then luminous intensity I =d@/dt lumen/steradian or candela.

Lumen: 

It is the unit of luminous flux. It is defined as the luminous flux emitted by a source of one candle power per unit solid angle in all directions. 

Lumen = candle power of source × solid angle. Lumen = CP × ω 

Total flux emitted by a source of one candle power is 4π lumens. 

Candle power (CP) 

The CP of a source is defined as the total luminous flux lines emitted by that source in a unit solid angle.

Illumination

 Illumination is defined as the luminous flux received by the surface per unit area. It is usually denoted by the symbol ‘E’ and is measured in lux or lumen/m2 or meter candle or foot candle. 

Lux or meter candle

 It is defined as the illumination of the inside of a sphere of radius 1 m and a source of 1 CP is fitted at the center of sphere.

Brightness

 Brightness of any surface is defined as the luminous intensity pen unit surface area of the projected surface in the given direction. It is usually denoted by symbol ‘L’. If the luminous intensity of source be ‘I’ candela on an area A, then the projected area is Acos θ. 

Mean horizontal candle power (MHCP) 

        MHCP is defined as the mean of the candle power of source in all directions in horizontal plane.

 Mean spherical candle power (MSCP)

         MSCP is defined as the mean of the candle power of source in all directions in all planes. 

Mean hemispherical candle power (MHSCP) 

        MHSCP is defined as the mean of the candle power of source in all directions above or below the horizontal plane.

Reduction factor

         Reduction factor of the source of light is defined as the ratio of its mean spherical candle power to its mean horizontal candle power.

Lamp efficiency

 It is defined as the ratio of the total luminous flux emitting from the source to its electrical power input in watts. 

It is expressed in lumen/W

Specific consumption It is defined as the ratio of electric power input to its average candle power.

 Space to height ratio

 It is defined as ratio of horizontal distance between adjacent lamps to the height of their mountings.

Coefficient of utilization or utilization factor 

It is defined as the ratio of total number of lumens reaching the working plane to the total number of lumens emitting from source.

Maintenance factor 

It is defined as the ratio of illumination under normal working conditions to the illumination when everything is clean. 

Depreciation factor 

It is defined as the ratio of initial illumination to the ultimate maintained illumination on the working plane.

Waste light factor 

            When a surface is illuminated by several numbers of the sources of light, there is certain amount of wastage due to overlapping of light waves; the wastage of light is taken into account depending upon the type of area to be illuminated. Its value for rectangular area is 1.2 and for irregular area is 1.5 and objects such as statues, monuments, etc.

 Absorption factor 

Normally, when the atmosphere is full of smoke and fumes, there is a possibility of absorption of light. Hence, the total lumens available after absorption to the total lumens emitted by the lamp are known as absorption factor.

Beam factor 

        It is defined as the ratio of ‘lumens in the beam of a projector to the lumens given out by lamps’. Its value is usually varies from 0.3 to 0.6. This factor is taken into account for the absorption of light by reflector and front glass of the projector lamp. 

LAWS OF ILLUMINATION

 Mainly there are two laws of illumination. 

1. Inverse square law.

 2. Lambert's cosine law.

Inverse square law 

This law states that ‘the illumination of a surface is inversely proportional to the square of distance between the surface and a point source’.

Proof: Let, ‘S’ be a point source of luminous intensity ‘I’ candela, the luminous flux emitting from source crossing the three parallel plates having areas A1 A2, and A3 square meters, which are separated by a distances of d, 2d, and 3d from the point source respectively as shown in Fig.

Inverse square law

Luminous flux reaching the area A1 = luminous intensity × solid angle

∴ Illumination 'E1' on the surface area 'A1' is:

Similarly, illumination 'E2' on the surface area A2 is:

and illumination ‘E3’ on the surface area A3 is:

2. Lambert’s Cosine Law:

Very often the illuminated surface is not normal to the direction of light as AC in Fig. but is inclined as AB. The area over which the light is spread is then increased in the ratio-

According to this law the illumination at any point on a surface is proportional to the cosine of the angle between the normal at that point and the direction of luminous flux.

Component of an HVDC Transmission System

HVDC system has the following main components

1. Converter Station
2. Converter Unit
3. Converter Transformers
4. Filters
   1. AC filter
   2. DC filter
   3. High-frequency filter
5. Reactive Power Source
6. Smoothing Reactor
7. HVDC System Pole
• Converter Station
  The terminal substations which convert an AC to DC  are called rectifier terminal while the terminal substations which convert DC to AC are called inverter terminal. Every terminal is designed to work in both the rectifier and inverter mode. Therefore, each terminal is called converter terminal, or rectifier terminal. A two-terminal HVDC system has only two terminals and one HVDC line.

Converter Unit

The conversion from AC to DC and vice versa is done in HVDC converter stations by using three-phase bridge converters. In HVDC transmission a 12-pulse bridge converter is used. 

Converter Transformer

• The converter transformer converts the AC networks to DC networks or vice versa. They have two sets of three phase windings. The AC side winding is connected to the AC bus bar, and the valve side winding is connected to valve bridge.These windings are connected in star for one transformer and delta to another.

  The AC side windings of the two, three phase transformer are connected in stars with their neutrals grounded. The valve side transformer winding is designed to withstand alternating voltage stress and direct voltage stress from valve bridge. There are increases in eddy current losses due to the harmonics current. The magnetisation in the core of the converter transformer is because of the following reasons.

  • The alternating voltage from AC network containing fundamentals and several harmonics.
  • The direct voltage from valve side terminal also has some harmonics.

      Filters

    The AC and DC harmonics are generated in HVDC converters. The AC harmonics are injected into the AC system, and the DC harmonics are injected into DC lines. The harmonics have the following disadvantages.

    1. It causes the interference in telephone lines.
    2. Due to the harmonics, the power losses in machines and capacitors are connected in the system.
    3. The harmonics produced resonance in an AC circuit resulting in over voltages.
    4. Instability of converter controls.

    The harmonics are minimised by using the AC, DC and high-frequency filters. The types of filter are explained below in details.

    • AC Filters – The AC filters are RLC circuit connected between phase and earth. They offered low impedances to the harmonic frequencies. Thus, the AC harmonic currents are passed to earth. Both tuned and damped filters are used. The AC harmonic filter also provided a reactive power required for satisfactory operation of converters.
    • DC Filters  – The DC filter is connected between the pole bus and neutral bus. It diverts the DC harmonics to earth and prevents them from entering DC lines. Such a filter does not require reactive power as DC line does not require DC power.
    • High-Frequency Filters – The HVDC converter may produce electrical noise in the carrier frequency band from 20 kHz to 490 kHz. They also generate radio interference noise in the megahertz range frequencies. High-frequency filters are used to minimise noise and interference with power line carrier communication. Such filters are placed between the converter transformer and the station AC bus.

    • Reactive Power Source

      Reactive power is required for the operations of the converters. The AC harmonic filters provide reactive power partly. The additional supply may also be obtained from shunt capacitors synchronous phase modifiers and static var systems. The choice depends on the speed of control desired.

      Smoothing Reactor

      Smoothing reactor is an oil filled oil cooled reactor having a large inductance. It is connected in series with the converter before the DC filter. It can be located either on the line side or on the neutral side. Smoothing reactors serve the following purposes.

      1. They smooth the ripples in the direct current.
      2. They decrease the harmonic voltage and current in the DC lines.
      3. They limit the fault current in the DC line.
      4. Consequent commutation failures in inverters are prevented by smoothing reactors by reducing the rate of rising of the DC line in the bridge when the direct voltage of another series connected voltage collapses.
      5. Smoothing reactors reduce the steepness of voltage and current surges from the DC line. Thus, the stresses on the converter valves and valve surge diverters are reduced.

      HVDC System Pole

      The HVDC system pole is the part of an HVDC system consisting of all the equipment in the HVDC substation. It also interconnects the transmission lines which during normal operating condition exhibit a common direct polarity with respect to earth. Thus the word pole refers to the path of DC which has the same polarity with respect to earth. The total pole includes substation pole and transmission line pole.

Power Factor

 Power Factor

 AC power has three components – 

1,Real power(P) measured in watts

2.Apparent power(S) measures in volt amperes 

3.Reactive power Q measured in reactive volt 

Definition of power factor :

In electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC electrical power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in the circuit.It refers to the fraction of total power (apparent power) which is utilized to do the useful work called active power.

• Low power factor results when KW is small in relation to KVA. 
• The inductive loads causes large KVAR in the systems which includesTransformer , Induction motor, Induction generator (wind mill generators), High intensity discharge lightening. These inductive loads consume major portions of the power consumed in the industries. 
• Reactive power (KVAR) required by the inductive load increases the amount of the apparent power (KVA) in the distribution system. This increase in the reactive and the apparent power results in the large angle and thus the cosine (or power factor) increase.

Advantages of improved Power Factor:

• Real power is given by P = VIcosφ. The electrical current is inversely proportional to cosφ for transferring a given amount of power at a certain voltage. Hence higher the pf lower will be the current flowing. A small current flow requires a less cross-sectional area of conductors, and thus it saves conductors and money.
• From the above relation, we see having a poor power factor increases the current flowing in a conductor, and thus copper loss increases. A large voltage drop occurs in the alternator, electrical transformer, and transmission, and distribution lines – which gives very poor voltage regulation.
• The KVA rating of machines is also reduced by having a higher power factor, as per the formula:

Hence, the size and cost of the machine are also reduced.

This is why the electrical power factor should be maintained close to unity – it is significantly cheaper.

Disadvantages of low power factor

Let us consider, load as P is supplied at terminal voltage V and at power factor cosΦ by a 3-phase balanced system then load current is given by

Where P is the real power (watt) From the above expression for a given load, it is clear that if the power factor is low, the load current will be higher. The larger the load current due to low power factor results in the following effects

1) Effect on transmission lines: For the fixed active power to be transmitted over the line, the lower the power factor, the higher will be the load current to be carried by the line. Since the maximum permissible current density of the line conductor is fixed, the cross –sectional area of the conductor is to be increased in order to carry larger current. This results in an increased volume of the conductor material which in turn increases the capital cost of transmission lines. 

2) Further, Increases in the current causes increase in the line losses with a reduction in the efficiency of the line. Also the line voltage regulation is poor. 

3) Effect on transformer: A reduction in the current increase in the line losses with a reduction in the efficiency of the line.

4) Voltage regulation becomes poor at low power factor. Current at low lagging power factor causes a greater voltage drop in alternators, transformers, and transmission lines causing to have low power supply at the receiving end. To keep the receiving end voltage within permissible limits, extra equipment (i.e., voltage regulators) is required that increases the overall cost of the system.

5)Effect on switchgear and bus bar: The lower the power factor at which a given power is to be supplied, the larger is the cross –sectional area of the bus bar and the larger is the contact surface of the switchgear

6) Effect on generators: With a lower power factor, the KW capacity of agenerator is reduced. The power supplied by the exciter is increased. The generator copper losses are increased, which results in low efficiency of the generator. 

7) Effect on prime movers: When the power factor is increased, the alternator develops more reactive KVA i.e. the reactive power generated is more. This requires a certain amount of power to be supplied by the prime mover. So, a part of prime mover capacity is idle and it represents a dead investment. The efficiency of the prime mover is reduced.

 8) Effect on existing power system: For the same active power, the operation of an existing power system at a lower power factor necessitates the overloading of the equipment during full load.

Describe the range of power factor and meaning of lagging and leading power factor.

The power factor is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power

In case of perfectly sinusoidal waveform P,Q and S can be expressed as the vectors that form a vector triangle such that 

If is the phase angle between the current and the voltage then the power factor is equal to the cosine of the angle 

• Since the units are consistent, the power factor is by definition a dimensionless number between -1 to 1.
• When the power factor is 0, the energy flow is entirely reactive and the stored energy in the load returns to the source in each cycle.
• When the power factor is 1 all the energy supplied by the source is consumed by the load.
• power factors are usually stated as lagging or leading to show the sign of
• Capacitive loads are leading and the inductive loads are lagging.

Avoiding of Low power factor without using Power factor improvement devices: 

1) Single phase capacitor start and capacitor run motor can be used as electric drives for better power factor

2)Three phase induction motor and transformer can be loaded to its higher load condition so that power factor at higher load is more

3) If load is shared by three phase induction motor and three phase synchronous motor then synchronous motor can be run in over excitation mode by increasing its excitation so that it runs with leading power factor and induction motor will run at lagging power factor, then overall power factor of the system improves

Q. Poor power factor reduces the handling capacity of the plant. Justify your answer. 

Ans:  

• Poor power factor reduces the handling capacity of all the elements of the system 
• For low value of power factor (lagging) increases the KVAR i.e. reactive component i.e. reactive component of the system and hence full power is not utilized and hence power handling capacity reduces. 
• All the above drawbacks of lower power factor suggest that P.F. must be improved at least up to a value of 0.8, 0.85. 
• For the industrial consumers, the power supplying company insist on P.F. improvement. The power tariffs are revised to impose penalties if the P.F. is poor, lesser than 0.8. 
• They are advised to install Power factor improvement devices.