Performance analysis of a proposed model of lantern with LED and CFL
Electrical Engineering Department, Bengal College of Engineering & Technology, Durgapur, India
ABSTRACT
To meet the lighting demand at night various technologies have been developed which utilizes various renewable energy sources such as solar, biomass, wind etc. Among the various renewable sources solar energy is abundantly available and published literatures show that the use of solar energy assisted products for lighting are increasing in the remote villages. Solar lanterns have got various advantages such as quality of illumination, durability and versatility of use over to the other options of lighting as hurricane lamp, candles and petro-max. In this paper a model has been proposed to increase the performance of lighting systems. Performance analysis has been done on the basis of available lighting loads. A square wave inverter is used for analyzing the behavior of the proposed model with LED and CFLs. Batteries can be charged by using solar panels.
