LED has great potential for application in plant lighting

Because of the large amount of energy consumed in the lighting system of the traditional plant, the LED is the most potential technology in the application of agricultural lighting. PIDA pointed out that the plant in the fluorescent lamp plant, lighting energy consumption accounted for up to 82% operating energy consumption. The use of LED to replace the traditional lighting source can greatly reduce the energy consumption of agricultural production. Taking Holland as an example, in the greenhouse using fill LED experiments, compared with the traditional high pressure sodium lamp and metal halogen lamp, LED can save 50 ~ 80%; in plant plant if the use of traditional light sources per square meter need light source with 0.5kW, while LED only 0.27kW, the power consumption can be reduced by 50%.

Taiwan accounted for 25% of the global market for LED components, so the plant has recently become one of the hot topics in the LED industry. Because the agricultural lighting and general lighting design is different from the grain consumption, IC packaging must according to the characteristics of plant plant design, so almost all of Taiwan's LED suppliers have announced its entry into the field, and further to China, extending tentacles.

Billion optoelectronics 2 years ago with the Holland PHILPS lighting, Japan MITSUBISHI chemical, Matsushita (China) electrician, Yangzi electric, OULIN group, dozens of well-known international companies signed a strategic cooperation agreement. LED plant lamp lighting, industrial control, environmental control, air conditioning nutrition liquid preparation in areas such as technology innovation, market development and signed a letter of intent, in order to develop some potential LED special lighting in the field of commodity.

In addition, the Japanese company StanleyELectric recently launched a LED lamp for indoor fruit cultivation. The company calculates the most suitable for the growth of solar radiation angle, narrow the LED lamp irradiation angle, increase the unit area of illumination, and with the sun, can shorten the harvest time. The company plans to launch in the near future on the market can accelerate the growth of plant interior LED plant lighting.

But no matter what kind of artificial light, there are electro-optical conversion loss and waste heat, waste heat in the closed room, the more consuming large amount of air conditioning to discharge; followed by the lighting design must have to focus on the planting area and derived irradiation heat source, in order to improve the efficiency of planting, this also involves the design of LED package and lighting mechanism, therefore plant factory artificial light source selection is very important.