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Recent Advances in Lighting for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 12809

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Marina Bonomolo

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Department of Engineering, University of Palermo (UNIPA), 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: renewable energies; solar energy, efficient lighting; building physics; energy planning; building automation systems
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Dr. Francesca Fragliasso

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: innovative and energy-efficient lighting systems; techniques and technologies for integrating daylight and electric light; quality of lighting in indoor environments; visual and non-visual effects of light for humans; lighting for cultural heritage

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is a big challenge, and the energy consumption for lighting in buildings is substantial, especially for specific applications. The design and implementation of optimized systems can provide many advantages in addition to energy efficiency such as improved visual comfort, well-being, safety and productivity. Advanced technologies in lighting consist of both hardware (light sources, ballasts and drivers) and software (control algorithms). Indeed, the choice and installation of new efficient technologies have to be matched with methods and tools for the optimization of the design, installation and testing of the systems and their control, e.g., BAC systems and ICT. In order to realize the above-mentioned advantages, it is necessary to optimize and test all the steps of implementation: from design to post-operating tests, and from the choice of the technology’s characteristics to the evaluation of the actual performance through measurements and simulation (e.g., BIM implementation, simulation software validation, etc.).

This Special Issue will collect research and studies on the evaluation of the actual efficacy and achievable benefits of recent advanced technologies for energy-efficient lighting for indoor spaces.

The topics for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • The application and evaluation of advanced and efficient light sources;
  • The application and evaluation of advanced building devices for lighting during the day;
  • The development of systems for daylight control;
  • Algorithms and tools for smart lighting control;
  • Methods of optimizing lighting design;
  • The design and application of lighting control systems;
  • The post-occupancy evaluation of lighting systems;
  • The post-operating evaluation of lighting systems;
  • Simulation software for lighting design;
  • The use of efficient lighting for visual comfort;
  • The use of efficient lighting for non-visual comfort;
  • The use of smart lighting for safety;
  • BIM and BEM for lighting systems.

Dr. Marina Bonomolo
Dr. Francesca Fragliasso
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • smart lighting
  • lighting design
  • indoor lighting systems
  • daylight-linked control systems
  • predictive control

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Partial Daylight Autonomy (DAp): A New Lighting Dynamic Metric to Optimize the Design of Windows for Seasonal Use Spaces
by Alejandro Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Campano, Ignacio Acosta and Óscar Luque
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(17), 8228; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11178228 - 4 Sep 2021
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Nowadays, daylight dynamic metrics are the most useful indicators to quantify the use of natural light, with daylight autonomy (DA) being one of the most widespread among all of them. This metric represents the percentage of the occupied time throughout the year in [...] Read more.
Nowadays, daylight dynamic metrics are the most useful indicators to quantify the use of natural light, with daylight autonomy (DA) being one of the most widespread among all of them. This metric represents the percentage of the occupied time throughout the year in an indoor space when daylight reaches the minimum illuminance level to develop a specific task. Accordingly, the higher the percentage of DA, the shorter the switching on time of electric lighting. However, this metric considers for its calculations all business days of a whole standard year, and is thus not an accurate indicator for seasonal use spaces such as school classrooms. In this context, a variant of this metric is proposed, namely partial daylight autonomy (DAp), which is a non-lineal derivation of DA that considers those seasonal use spaces, helping to define the real percentage of indoor daylight use in order to properly quantify the accurate switching on time of electric lighting and therefore its energy consumption. As deduced from the analysis, the more precise results provided by DAp reach divergences close to 10% in comparison with the original conception of DA. Thus, this metric serves to estimate more accurately the impact on energy consumption if an electric lighting control system is implemented through lux meters. This new proposal has been monitored under real sky conditions in a test cell, providing converging results with those observed in the simulation process. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Lighting for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability)
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Impact of Urbanization and Sunlight Exposure on Cataract Incidence
by Wan-Syuan Yu, Chia-Hui Wang and Nai-Wen Kuo
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(17), 8137; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11178137 - 2 Sep 2021
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The impact of urbanization on cataract incidence is still inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the association of urbanization and sunlight exposure with cataract incidence using a nationwide population-based database in Taiwan. The researchers used data retrieved from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance [...] Read more.
The impact of urbanization on cataract incidence is still inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the association of urbanization and sunlight exposure with cataract incidence using a nationwide population-based database in Taiwan. The researchers used data retrieved from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database from 2001 to 2010 (LHID2010). The LHID2010 consists of medical claims data for reimbursement for 1 million individuals randomly selected from all enrollees (N = 23.25 million) in the Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) program in 2010. For adults aged over 40, we identified a total of 3080 people diagnosed with senile cataracts (ICD-9:360) and 393,241 people without senile cataracts in the LHID2010. In addition, sunlight exposure data between 2001 and 2011 were obtained from 28 meteorological stations of the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau. Logistic regression was performed to test the hypothesis. When controlled for the confounding factors, such as demographic factors, comorbidities, and sunlight exposure, the logistic regression results showed that those living in highly urbanized areas are more likely to suffer from senile cataracts (p < 0.001). Full article
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Technical-Economic Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Measures Applied to the Artificial Lighting System of a School
by Cristina Baglivo, Marina Bonomolo, Paolo Maria Congedo, Marco Beccali and Simona Antonaci
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(14), 6664; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11146664 - 20 Jul 2021
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Ensuring optimum interior lighting is a topic of great importance, as this influences not only the well-being of users but also the optimal performance of visual tasks. Lighting can be natural, but if not sufficient, it can be compensated with artificial lighting. This [...] Read more.
Ensuring optimum interior lighting is a topic of great importance, as this influences not only the well-being of users but also the optimal performance of visual tasks. Lighting can be natural, but if not sufficient, it can be compensated with artificial lighting. This study highlights a methodology for designing a new lighting system that takes into account both technical and economic aspects. The method was applied to an existing school located in southern Italy, in which the electricity consumption is related to the current lighting system. The school is chosen as being representative of the construction type and layout of many local schools. In addition, the coexistence of several visual tasks with different design requisites (e.g., illuminance levels) makes the school a very complex environment. The school lighting is modelled in Google SketchUp and imported into Daysim to simulate the yearly and hourly daylight indoor contribution. Dialux Evo has been used to simulate and design artificial lighting. The results show a reduction of energy consumption of 33% with the simple replacement of fluorescent luminaires with LEDs, while the LED lamp dimming and modulation for rows of luminaires leads to a 95% reduction in energy consumption compared with the current state. Full article
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The Impact of Modern Artificial Lighting on the Optimum Window-to-Wall Ratio of Residential Buildings in Jordan
by Aiman Albatayneh, Haya Atieh, Mustafa Jaradat, Murad Al-Omary, Maha Zaquot, Adel Juaidi, Ramez Abdallah and Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(13), 5888; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11135888 - 24 Jun 2021
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Energy savings gained through natural lighting could be offset by the loss of energy through windows; therefore, the target of this study is to examine the effects of enhancing the efficiency of lighting systems on the optimum window-to-wall ratio (WWR) of Jordanian residential [...] Read more.
Energy savings gained through natural lighting could be offset by the loss of energy through windows; therefore, the target of this study is to examine the effects of enhancing the efficiency of lighting systems on the optimum window-to-wall ratio (WWR) of Jordanian residential structures. This research proposes the hypothesis that the WWR of residential structures that contain artificial lighting systems with increased efficiency will be lower than buildings in which solar lighting is provided. The energy simulation tool, DesignBuilder (DesignBuilder Software Ltd, Stroud, UK) was used to simulate an intricate model showing a standard Jordanian residential building with a size of 130 m2. The study offers useful guidance regarding the optimum WWR for key decisionmakers when designing energy-efficient residential structures in the context of Jordan. By considering the balance between gains and losses in solar heat and light gain to exploit energy from solar sources with no reverse effects, while making comparisons between different WWR situations, the findings indicate that the typical WWR for residential structures in Jordan that have efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) systems of lighting installed could be between 25% and 30%, which is lower than the highest WWR stipulated by the ASHRAE standards. Full article
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