Light & Engineering 29 (6)

Volume 29
Date of publication 12/28/2021
Pages 102–109

Tunnel Illumination: Algorithm to Determine Standard Values of Luminance in Tunnel Zones Using C Programming Language Approach L&E, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2021

Articles authors:

Canan Perdahci, Onur Hasanoglu, Yahya Sogodok

Canan Perdahci, Ph. D., Associate Professor. She received the B. E. and M. Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Yildiz, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kocaeli, Kocaeli, Turkey, in 1997. In 1992, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kocaeli, as a Lecturer, and in 2019 became an Associate Professor. Her current research interests include LED lighting, UVC, power quality, tunnel lighting, road lighting

Onur Hasanoglu, B. Sc. He is currently a master student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kocaeli and student in the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Kocaeli. His current research interests include LED illumination, UVC, tunnel illumination, road illumination, C programming, algorithm development, and smart cities

Yahya Sogodok received a B. Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics from the Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2018. Currently, he is a master student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kocaeli. His current research interests include LED lighting, UVC, tunnel lighting, road lighting

Abstract:

Tunnel illumination design involves complex mathematical computation, cumbersome, and tedious to perform when done by hand. This paper proposes an algorithm to compute luminance and luminous flux of the different zones of the tunnel by following the International Commission on Illumination (CIE88:2004) standard design guidelines using the C programming language. The luminance and the luminous flux values of all the zones were calculated and compared with the CIE standard. The energy consumption of each zone is equally found to control and reduce energy wastage and payment of unwanted bills. The threshold zone length Lth, average luminance in the first half Lav, and the last half of the threshold zone are 40 m, 400 cd/m2, and 240 cd/m2, respectively, while the average luminance of the transition and interior zones are, respectively, 95.87 cd/m2 and 5.86 cd/m2. The results obtained were satisfying. The computational results showed that the proposed Algorithm could be used to design an efficient tunnel illumination system with less energy waste.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33383/2021–081