Cost comparison between energy consumption and lifetime depreciation for different compact fluorescent lamps starting scenarios

Author

Silva, M. F da ; Chagas, N.B. ; de P Lopes, J. ; Schlittler, M.E. ; Seidel, A.R. ; Costa, M. A Dalla ; Prado, R. N do

Author_Institution

Group of Intell. in Lighting-GEDRE, Fed. Univ. of Santa Maria-UFSM, Santa Maria, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

8-10 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the benefit-cost ratio of turning off or not a fluorescent lamp in small time intervals, based on the relation between energy consumption and lamp lifetime depreciation. Thus, this paper analyzes compact fluorescent lamp ignition characteristics considering factors such as: electrical performance, lifetime depreciation, power consumption and the relationship between electrical energy cost and lamp lifetime reduction by switching it on/off. The experimental results show the equivalence between the lamp lifetime depreciation and electrical energy cost to keep it on when it is activated for a certain cycled time period.

Keywords

cost-benefit analysis; fluorescent lamps; ignition; starting; benefit-cost ratio; compact fluorescent lamps starting; cost comparison; electrical performance; energy consumption; lamp lifetime depreciation; lamp lifetime reduction; power consumption; Capacitors; Electrodes; Electronic ballasts; Energy consumption; Fluorescent lamps; Ignition; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications (INDUSCON), 2010 9th IEEE/IAS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Paulo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8008-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8009-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDUSCON.2010.5740019

Filename

5740019