Week 13.1

Final Year Project Proposal and Progress Report

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction

This chapter will discuss on the project background, project statement, objectives and limitation of the research study.

1.2 Project Background

This research study is titled as ‘Efficiency of Lighting System between LED and Fluorescent’. The purpose of this research study is to analyze on the efficiency of two different components, Light Emitting Diode (LED) and Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) as the source of main lighting system. This research study is divided into two parts; hardware implementation and research analysis.

            In the hardware part, an LED lamp will be designed. It will include the casing of the lamp and constructing the wiring diagram. The lamp will be designed especially to replace the traditional fluorescent lamp in homes and offices. The output power and voltage will be taken into account in designing the LED lamp. This is to ensure that the lamp is efficient and cost effective.

            In the research analysis part, the two components; LED and CFL will be compared. The comparison includes parameters such as its purchase price, electricity usage, Lumens per Watt, color temperature and its life span.  Then, the research will conclude on which components are better in terms of all parameters and suitable to replace the traditional fluorescent lamp.

1.5 Scope of Project / Limitation

            The limitation of this research study is the lack of information on the effort to replace the fluorescent lamps with LEDs. Although there are many researches on the various applications of LEDs in engineering field, the information on the lighting for homes and offices are limited. In Malaysia, there are a few of LED applications. Hence, this research study gets little local references while most of the research is relying on the foreign researches and results. This also creates barrier such as the geographical and climates differences and therefore some of the analysis cannot be applied in Malaysia.

 1.6 Summary

            LED has the potential to become the alternative lighting systems. With further research and analysis, this theory can be proved and will be beneficial to all.