Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional (CLEP) Program

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Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional (CLEP) Program

23-25 April, 2008

| 08:00 AM-04:00 PM

Doubletree Guest Suites
5400 Computer Drive
Westborough, MA
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Training Overview

The two-day CLEP program is designed to provide a preparatory vehicle for the CLEP examination. The course offers an excellent broad-based instructional program for those who want to “brush up on the basics” of efficient lighting design, retrofit and application. Emphasis is placed on: designing or upgrading energy-effective lighting systems, calculating the true savings from lighting improvements and assessing and implementing effective lighting control strategies.

Agenda

FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHT & LIGHTING
• What is light?
• How light interacts with surfaces
• The visual task, visibility factors
• Definitions & terminology

ELECTRICAL BASICS & POWER QUALITY
• Power & power factor
• Energy & harmonics

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS & REGULATIONS
• Mercury in lamps
• PCBs in ballasts
• EPA-lamp & ballast disposal

BUILDING ENERGY CODES
• 10CFR435 Federal Energy Code
• ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1 (2001)

UTILITY & ESCO PROGRAMS & INCENTIVES
• Electric utility industry restructuring
• Role of Energy Services Companies
• Performance contracting

LIGHTING ECONOMICS
• Basic energy accounting
• Simple payback & return-on-investment
• Life-cycle Cost
• Evaluating system costs & alternatives

LIGHTING ECONOMICS: PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
• Computing economic decision statistics
• Sample problems

LIGHTING QUALITY
• Illuminance & glare
• Veiling reflections & visual comfort probability
• Flicker & balanced lighting IMPROVING LIGHTING SYSTEMS
• Benefits of well-designed lighting • Energy-effective lighting systems
• Systems approach
• Task-ambient lighting
• Retrofit vs. re-lighting
• T8 lamp & ballast upgrades
• Pulse-start MH systems

LAMPS
• Common lamp characteristics
• Incandescent & halogen lamps
• Compact- & linear-fluorescent
• Metal-halide & pulse-start MH
• High-pressure & low-pressure sodium
• Electrodeless sources

BALLASTS
• How ballasts work
• Ballast factor (BF)
• Magnetic & hybrid ballasts & ballast circuits
• Operation/characteristics of electronic ballasts
• Relationship between power input & BF
• Application issues: avoiding mistakes
• Electronic ballasts for metal halide lamps

LUMINAIRES & FIXTURES
• Luminaire Efficacy Rating (LER)
• Evaluating photometric reports
• Coefficient of Utilization (CU)
• Spacing criteria/increasing luminaire efficiency
• Specular reflectors, louvers & lenses

LIGHTING EVALUATION & AUDITS
• Evaluation process, lighting surveys & audits
• Data collection tools, tips, & techniques
• Analyzing data, calculating savings & payback
• Recommending lighting improvements

LIGHTING CONTROLS
• Switching & switching controls
• Scheduling & time controls
• Occupancy recognition & controls
• Photocells/demand controls/daylight harvesting
• Dimming control technology & dimming ballasts
• Photo-sensors

MAINTAINING LIGHTING SYSTEMS
• Lighting system troubleshooting
• Maintenance documentation
• Re-lamping & cleaning procedures

LIGHTING CALCULATIONS WORKSHOP
• Inverse square law
• Illuminance at a point
• Calculation methods, zonal cavity method
• Surface reflectances, using CU tables
• Light loss factors & sample problems