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Features Choice of Light Sources for Bio-Technical Life Support Systems for Space Applications. L&E 26 (4) 2018

Light & Engineering 26 (4)

Volume 26
Date of publication 12/20/2018
Pages 117–121

Features Choice of Light Sources for Bio-Technical Life Support Systems for Space Applications. L&E 26 (4) 2018

Articles authors:

Alexander A. Tikhomirov, Sofya A. Ushakova, Valentin N. Shikhov

Alexander A. Tikhomirov, Dr. of Biological Sc., Professor. In 1970, graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University with the major in physics and qualification of biophysicist and physicist. Works at the Institute of Biophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Controlled Biosynthesis of Phototrophic Organisms. Head of the Closed Ecosystems Sub-department of the Reshetnyov Siberian State University of Science and Technology. Research interests: phyto-actinometry, light physiology of plants, closed ecosystems

Sofya A. Ushakova, Ph. D. in Biology Sc. In 1968, she graduated from the Novosibirsk State University by speciality in physics and qualification of biophysicist and physicist. At present, she works in the Biophysics Institute of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, leading researcher of the Phototroph Biosynthesis Control Laboratory. Her research interests: photosynthesis and productivity of higher plants as a component of artificial ecosystems, plant resistance against unfavourable ambient conditions

Valentin N. Shikhov, Ph.D. in Bio. Sciences. He graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University in 1997 with a degree in physics and biophysics. At present, he is a researcher at the laboratory of biosynthesis control of phototrophs of the Institute of Biophysics SB RAS. His research interests: biophysics of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence, age physiology of plants, stress reactions in higher plants

Abstract:

The historical aspects and prospects of the use of artificial light sources in the biological and technical systems of life support for space applications are considered. According to the given data, the most promising for such systems are LED light sources. Based on the results of photobiological studies it is shown that radiation, perceived by a man as white, in his spectral efficiency unreliable differs from radiation, a spectral curve similar to the average action spectrum of photosynthesis the green sheet (“Phyto”). In accordance with this, the possibility of choosing either a phyto spectrum or a spectrum close to the equal energy for the cultivation of plants in life support systems is justified.

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