Publications received
Publications received
SOLINFO IN PORTFOLIOS The European Commission's Solinfo Project provides building designers with information on Solar Architecture.
POWER QUALITY AND CFLs Two reports on power quality and lighting make an attempt at sorting out the subject.
SOLINFO IN PORTFOLIOS· The European Commission's Solinfo Project provides building designers with information on Solar Architecture.
The three "Teachers' Resource Packages for Climate Responsive Architectural Design for Residential, Educational and Tertiary Buildings" can be ordered from:
Energy Research Group,
University College Dublin,
Richview, Clonskeagh, IE-Dublin 14, Ireland
Fax: +353 1 283 89 08
POWER QUALITY AND CFLs · Two reports on power quality and lighting make an attempt at sorting out the subject. The first report, "Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Voltage Distortion " was published in 1992 by the Dutch electricity and power research organization KEMA for the Dutch Energy Utilities' Association (Energiened) and Novem, the Dutch Agency for Energy and the Environment.
The report concludes that the installation of power-factor compensating devices in integral CFLs is unnecessary - and even inadvisable - when CFLs are used in residential applications, assuming that CFLs of high quality are used.
The report also concludes that for commercial applications when many CFLs are installed in networks with an heavy CFL load, such as in a office building, power factor-compensation is desirable.
The report can be ordered from:
Mr Blom, KEMA,
Tel: +31 26 3562 512
Fax: +31 26 4426 211
ANOTHER PUBLICATION that addresses power quality and lighting is the recent issue of "Lighting Answers" which is published within the (US) National Lighting Product Information Program at the Lighting Research Center (LRC).
The short publication provides an easy-to-understand overview of this complex issue, with clear graphics. A brief overview of North American Standards is also made. The document is available for free at LRC's web-site or can be ordered from:
LRC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180-3590
Fax: +1-518-276-2999
email: lrc@rpi.edu
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/lrc/LRC.html