Greener Gateway provides organisations worldwide with a variety of eco-friendly products which ensure environmental friendliness, promote carbon efficiency and most importantly reduce expenditure, says Neil Aremband, managing director of Greener Gateway.
Greener Gateway is committed to responsible environmental practices within its organisation and is implementing an environmental management programme consisting of various processes and procedures that promote environmental ecosystem awareness. Finally, Greener Gateway aims at minimising the ecological footprint of its operations on the environment. In this article we will give you an overview of our energy efficient lighting solutions.
Lumenite Light Sleeve
The safety of public buildings for its occupants and their visitors, needs no introduction. Whilst building standards continue to improve, the sudden and/or unplanned loss of normal lighting is a problem that has no immediate remedy. Regardless of the cause – mechanical, electrical, natural disasters or worse, the simple fact is that an unscheduled power outage results in a building plunged into darkness and the need for a failsafe ‘see without power’ solution is vital for safe and expedient evacuation. Lumenite Light Sleeves are manufactured from a safe, naturally occurring, non-radioactive material and when charged will provide enough light to evacuate a building for up to 90 minutes. Lumenite Light Sleeves will continue to perform for at least 10 years.
The key benefits of the sleeve include:
Applications for the light sleeve include (but are not limited to) switchboard rooms, stairwells, fire escapes, hallways, exits, elevators, restrooms, storage rooms, mines, subways, train stations and underground parking facilities.
The Lumenite Light Sleeve has been used on a number of UK based north sea oil support vessels. The sleeves were able to provide instant visual guidance during the crucial stages between a vessel blackout and back up generator start up. Fitting the Lumenite Light Sleeve in key areas ensures that, should an unfortunate situation take place, crew members are able to freely move around the vessel taking the appropriate action necessary using the light emitted by the sleeve thus minimising panic, confusion and personal injury. In this scenario, the sleeve is potentially saving the lives of those on board who may otherwise not be able to safely negotiate their way through the complexity of alleyways, galley areas and engine rooms should they need to do so.
Increasing efficiency with the induction motor product
The inductive motor optimisation panel is a product designed to increase the efficiency of an inductive load by locally controlling delivery of the necessary reactive power so that the value of the current and consequently the power flowing through the upstream network can be reduced. This means:
This in turn allows:
The productis a custom built unit manufactured to Ip65 standards with CE approval. With no moving parts, failure rates are extremely low and it is easily installed adjacent to the inductive load. The product is wired in parallel therefore, this will not affect the normal working of the inductive load in the unlikely event that failure occurs. This patented diagnostic device & methodology determines to an exact science how much capacitance is required to optimise each inductive load to ensure maximum efficiency. Optimising is precisely accomplished on each inductive load in minutes.
There are over 650 pre-engineered products in the range, all assembled on a modular template. Installation is fast, simple and sized (optimised) to the specific unit. Power (kWh) savings are immediate and average around 10% but range from six per cent to an impressive 25%. Return on investment is rapid, in most cases within 24 months.
LED light colour mixing
An LED lamp (LED light bulb) is a solid-state lamp which uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the source of light. The LEDs involved may be conventional semiconductor light-emitting LEDs (OLED), or polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED).
LED lamps are used for both general and special purpose lighting. Where coloured light is needed, LEDs with many naturally emitting colors are available, with no need for filters. This improves the energy efficiency over a white light source that generates all colours of light then discards some of the visible energy in a filter.
Compared to fluorescent bulbs, advantages claimed for LED light bulbs are that they contain no mercury (unlike a Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL), they turn on instantly, and their lifetime is unaffected by cycling on and off so that they are well suited for light fixtures where bulbs are often turned on and off. LED light bulbs are also mechanically robust; most other artificial light sources are fragile.
White light LED efficiency
White light-emitting diode lamps have longer life expectancy and higher efficiency (the same light for less electricity) than most other lighting. LED sources are compact, which gives flexibility in designing lighting fixtures and good control over the distribution of light with small reflectors or lenses. Because of the small size of LEDs, control of the spatial distribution of illumination is extremely flexible, and the light output and spatial distribution of an LED array can be controlled with no efficiency loss.
LED lamps have no glass tubes to break, and their internal parts are rigidly supported, making them resistant to vibration and impact. With a proper driver electronics design, an LED lamp can be made dimmable over a wide range and there is no minimum current needed to sustain lamp operation.
LEDs using the colour mixing principle can emit a wide range of colors by changing the proportions of light generated in each primary colour. This allows full colour mixing in lamps with LEDs of different colours. In contrast to other lighting technologies, LED emission tends to be directional. This can be either an advantage or disadvantage, depending on requirements. For applications where non-directional light is required, either a diffuser is used, or multiple individual LED emitters are used to emit in different directions.
Smart Grid solution
The term Smart Grid may be best understood as the overlaying of a unified communications and control system on the existing power delivery infrastructure to provide the right information to the right entity (for example, end-use devices, transmission and distribution, system controls, customers, etc.) at the right time to take the right action. It is a system that optimises power supply and delivery, minimises losses, is self-healing, and enables next generation energy efficiency and demands response applications.
A Smart Grid entails an open standard for communications with devices – both transmission and distribution and end use devices – advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), two-way communications between a utility and its customers, and smart interconnections to distributed energy resources.
A Smart Grid will also facilitate the market adoption and the interconnection of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) which can be plugged into electrical outlets for recharging.
A Smart Grid is a critical element for dynamic energy management. The synergistic effect of a Smart Grid with smart energy efficient end-use devices can advance a whole building's control systems and smartly distribute energy resources to yield energy savings and peak demand reductions greater than what could otherwise be realised. A Smart Grid would potentially link all of these elements together and provide constant communications between a utility and its customers to optimise energy efficiency and mitigate emissions.
For further information about any of these solutions, please contact us at: sales@greenergateway.com or telephone on +44 208 123 7470.
