LED Lighting for Oil and Gas Facilities

Abstract

Industrial petrochemical facilities have predominantly used high-intensity discharge light sources and installation practices unchanged for several decades. Today, new lightemitting diode (LED)-based products are being developed, and there appear to be many advantages to this technology; however, caution is advised in its application. This paper examines LED lighting technology, standards, and available products along with design and application considerations. Moreover, presented are case studies of LED luminaire retrofits in existing facilities. This paper discusses the results of the studies as they relate to safety, environment impacts, capital and operating costs, design implications, and installation improvements.Index Terms-Color rendering index (CRI), environment, high-intensity discharge (HID), high-pressure sodium (HPS), light-emitting diode (LED), lighting, maintenance, safety.

Sensing Light with LEDs: Performance Evaluation for IoT Applications

“…This operation is generally performed by photo-diodes, but it has been proven that LEDs are adequate [6] to achieve such conversion. Moreover, the technological evolution of LEDs, in terms of luminous efficacy, switching speed, energy savings, durability and low manufacturing costs [7,8], makes LEDs (phosphor converted (PC), multi-chip, µ, resonant cavity (RC) [9], and more) suitable for transmitting data in the context of VLC applications. Using such devices, it is also possible to design LED-to-LED communication [10][11][12] and then reduce the hardware requirements of VLC systems, merging the transmitter and receiver into a single device.…”