Abstract
Light pipe systems (LPS) are simple devices that allow the transmission of daylight into interiors of buildings. It is a convenient concept for illumination of windowless parts of buildings. The light performance of this is highly dependent on the solar altitude due to the small inlet aperture. Placing the laser-cut panel (LCP) at the entrance aperture in light pipe system, will increase the light performance during low solar angle. This paper presents the results of light performance a 400mm diameter light pipe integrated with a laser-cut panel at entrance aperture as collector. For that reason, this research adopted an experimental approach to compare the light pipe performance via 1:10 scale model. Two scale models were built. LCP in the form of pyramids was fitted at the entrance aperture of light pipe in different tilted angle 40° and 47.5°. The system has been monitored 30 minutes interval with lux meter to evaluate the improvement light performance on a working plane for 6 days under good sky condition. The results of this experiment shows that LCP with 40° tilted angle performed better than 47.5° tilted angle. The light pipe with LCP as collector the minimum recommended illuminance by Malaysian Standard (MS) 1525:2007 can be achieved as early at 8am.
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