Optimization Process Applied in the Thermal and Luminous Design of High Power LED Luminaires

Jose Luiz F. Barbosa (), Antonio P. Coimbra, Dan Simon and Wesley P. Calixto ()
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Jose Luiz F. Barbosa: Electrical, Mechanical & Computer Engineering School, Federal University of Goias, Goiania 74605-010, Brazil
Antonio P. Coimbra: Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal
Dan Simon: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
Wesley P. Calixto: Electrical, Mechanical & Computer Engineering School, Federal University of Goias, Goiania 74605-010, Brazil

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-28

Abstract: This work proposes the design of an optimization method for high-power LED luminaires with the introduction of new evaluation metrics. A luminaire geometry computational method is deployed to conduct thermal and optical analysis. This current effort novels by designing a tool that enables the analysis of uniformity for individual luminaire over the target plane in accordance with international regulatory standards. Additionally, adequate thermal management is conducted to guarantee nominal operation standard values determined by LED vendors. The results of this optimization method present luminaire models with different geometries that allow the stabilization of the temperature within the safety and uniform illuminance distribution thresholds. The resulting solution proposes the design of a 2 × 2 HP-LED rectangular luminaire. During simulations, the temperature of the LED reaches a maximum value of 73.9 ∘ C in a steady state with a uniform index of 0.228 for its individual luminaire. The overall uniform index identified for two separate and adjacent luminaire points in a pedestrian walk is 0.5413 with a minimal illuminance of 36.95 lx, maximum illuminance of 93.65 lx and average illuminance of 68.27 lx. Overall, we conclude that the currently adopted metric, which takes into consideration only the ratio between the minimum and the average illuminance, is not efficient and it cannot distinguish different luminaire geometry standards according to their uniform illuminance distribution. The metric proposed and designed in this work is capable of evaluating illuminance and thermal threshold criteria, as well as classifying different sorts of luminaries.

Keywords: LED luminaire; illuminance distribution; thermal heat dissipation; optimization process; high power light emitting diode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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