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SYLVANIA BRIGHT IDEAS Newsletter
Shining a light on the future of lighting, energy saving tips, lighting design, exclusive deals and more. |
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The SYLVANIA Bright Ideas Newsletter brings innovative lighting to your home and vehicle. Become a lighting expert by staying on top of the latest trends, news and techniques in the lighting industry. Please share your feedback so we can continue to improve and provide you the most relevant information. |
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Five Simple Steps for Sustainable Lighting Solutions
The best plan for a better environment.
A quick fix doesn't go far enough.
Protecting and preserving our environment requires going beyond mercury. A multi-faceted approach is needed. That's why OSRAM SYLVANIA has developed a comprehensive five-component program for environmental sustainability in lighting products. Advanced technologies are helping us to be more efficient. We're using less energy and fewer resources, and generating less waste. So whether you're interested in lowering your energy consumption, avoiding unnecessary maintenance, identifying options for lamp and ballast recycling, or finding products with fewer hazardous materials, OSRAM SYLVANIA can help. We're committed to meeting today's lighting needs without compromising the future.
Our plan for environmental sustainability in lighting encompasses: - Longer lamp life to reduce the use of natural resources
- Reduced use of hazardous materials including lead and mercury
- Lamps with higher efficacy to avoid over-lighting spaces with too many lamps
- Energy efficiency and controllability of systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Recycling to keep mercury and lead from the waste stream
1. Longer lamp life
The longer life of our lamps reduces the number of lamps needed for a specific application, lowering the demand for raw materials. More importantly, it significantly lowers maintenance and recycling costs, and reduces the total amount of mercury and lead used in an application.
2. Reduced use of hazardous materials
Lowering the use of hazardous materials is paramount at OSRAM SYLVANIA. To date, we have reduced mercury use by over 90% in our florescent lamps, and we continue to lower mercury levels in lamps while maintaining quality and performance. Our micro-mini CFL has less than 1.5 mg of mercury in it, the lowest of any screw-based CFL on the market. In addition, we are completely eliminating lead from nearly all HID (high intensity discharge) and USA manufactured fluorescent lamps.
Our ECOLOGIC� products pass the US EPA's Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) test for hazardous waste determination. We offer nearly 1,000 ECOLOGIC products-more than any other manufacturer. In addition, all applicable SYLVANIA lamps are compliant with the California RoHS regulations to restrict the use of hazardous substances.
3. Lamps with higher efficacy
Our products make it possible for you to light to recommended levels using fewer lamps and possibly fewer fixtures. Higher LPW (Lumens Per Watt) also means less energy usage and a reduction of power plant emissions.
4. Energy efficiency and controllability of systems
Energy efficient systems with lighting controls help avoid excessive greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, 50% of our electricity comes from coal-burning power plants. Another 30% comes from power plants burning other fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels results in emissions of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide, as well as mercury emissions, from power plants. Lighting accounts for 30% of a commercial building's electricity load. When we can reduce our electricity demand, the attributable greenhouse gas emissions are avoided.
5. Lamp Recycling
Fluorescent and HID lamps contain small amounts of mercury. Recycling is the most responsible way to dispose of these products-keeping mercury and lead out of the waste stream. We offer turnkey recycling solutions through SYLVANIA Lighting Services (SLS). No other service company in the United States sends more lamps to be recycled than SLS.
More than mercury
Mercury is a fundamental component in fluorescent lamps. It is needed to produce light and to ensure that a fluorescent lamp will achieve excellent lumen maintenance throughout its potentially long average rated life.
At the same time, there are known environmental consequences of mercury. For this reason, it has been the goal of OSRAM SYLVANIA to reduce the use of mercury in fluorescent and HID lamps without sacrificing the performance requirements of high efficacy and extended lamp life. In addition, we have always recommended lamp recycling for all mercury-containing lamps, regardless of whether they pass associated tests classifying them as non-hazardous waste.
Mercury is just one criterion to consider when selecting a fluorescent lighting system. Other factors contribute to the overall environmental impact including energy consumption, efficacy and lamp life. More efficient fluorescent systems that incorporate energy-saving lamp types and high-efficiency electronic ballasts such as OCTRON� XP lamps and QUICKTRONIC� QHE ballasts will ultimately contribute less mercury and CO2 over their lifetime through reduced energy demand at the power plant. Additionally, longer-life lamps extend lamp replacement cycles, illustrated in the chart below.
A fluorescent lamp containing the lowest amount of mercury is not always the most environmentally preferable solution. Energy-saving, higher-performance, and longer-life fluorescent systems will ultimately prevail as a more environmentally sound choice.
View more information about the OSRAM SYLVANIA commitment to environmental sustainability, or about any of our energy-saving and environmentally preferable lighting solutions. |
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Fluorescent System Performance Comparisons
Help You Choose the Solution That is Right For You
| | Lamp Type | Lamp Wattage | Mercury (mg) in each lamp | CA RoHS Compliant | Lead-Free | Lamp Life (hrs at 3 hrs per start | Number of Lamp Cycle in 5 year period | Total 5-year mercury contribution (mg) | Annual CO2 emissions (lbs) | |
Competitive 700 Series T8 |
32 |
1.7 |
Yes |
No |
30,000 |
2.00 |
36.2 |
320 | |
Competitive 800 Series T8 |
32 |
1.7 |
Yes |
No |
30,000 |
2.00 |
36.2 |
320 | | | OCTRON� 700XP/ECO |
32 |
3.5 |
Yes |
Yes |
40,000 |
1.00 |
36.4 |
320 | | OCTRON� 800XP/ECO3 |
32 |
3.5 |
Yes |
Yes |
40,000 |
1.00 |
36.4 |
320 | | | OCTRON� 800XPS/ECO3 |
32 |
2.9 |
Yes |
Yes |
40,000 |
1.00 |
30.4 |
268 | | OCTRON� 800XP/SS/ECO3 |
28 |
2.9 |
Yes |
Yes |
40,000 |
1.00 |
32.5 |
297 | | OCTRON� 800XP/SS/ECO3 |
25 |
2.9 |
Yes |
Yes |
40,000 |
1.00 |
29.3 |
268 | | | OCTRON� 800XP/SS/XL/ECO3 |
28 |
3.5 |
Yes |
Yes |
52,000 |
1.00 |
34.3 |
297 | |
Calculations assume two-lamp confi guration on QUICKTRONIC high effi ciency programmed rapid start electronic ballast; annual operating hours of 4380; total mercury contribution includes power-plant emissions
Cost of ownership includes energy usage, lamp recycling cost and replacement labor ($20/hr.) initial installation and cost of product are not included
Lamp replacement assumed at 70% of rated life per IESNA Recommended Practice for Lighting Maintenance |
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OSRAM Helps Cinematographer Bring CAPTAIN AMERICA Motion Picture to Life
 Unlike most children, Shelly Johnson grew up on television sets - mingling with actors, producers, stage crews and cinematographers. From an early age, Johnson knew that working in the entertainment industry was something he wanted to do, mainly thanks to the camera crews he met as a child. Starting on lighting crews for small projects, Johnson worked his way up to chief lighting technician, or gaffer, for a variety of projects, each one bigger than the last, eventually earning the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg on The Others (TV) and Jurassic Park III. Through Spielberg, Johnson met Director Joe Johnston, which led him to his biggest project and challenge yet: the motion picture Captain America. Upon learning more about Director Joe Johnston's plans for the motion picture, Johnson was faced with not one, but two, new challenges. Johnston, an innovative director whose visions for movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark helped him win an OSCAR� in 'Best Effects, Visual Effects' in 1982, told Johnson that he wanted to film the motion picture digitally and with LEDs - relatively uncharted waters for Shelly. "My first experience with LED technology wasn't the best. They were very small and portable, but color reliability was an issue," recalled Johnson. "What the eye saw wasn't translated on film." When it came to Captain America, Johnson was interested in the nature of the lighting he would be using more than the color. He needed versatile light sources that were stable and created a "glow" effect and not a spot pattern. Johnson received a call from Mike Parker at Mole Richardson and Dennis Knopf at OSRAM SYLVANIA; they had new LED panels using remote phosphor technology they wanted to show him called KREIOS Daylight & Tungsten LED Panels. The KREIOS Daylight LEDs have a color temperature of 5600�K, while the KREIOS Tungsten lamps have color temperatures of 3200�K. "This was a chance to improve the reputation of LEDs in entertainment applications, so I jumped at the opportunity to see what these guys could do. But I didn't make it easy for them," said Johnson. He wanted an LED that had no color drift, in much the same way a tungsten lamp would work, but from a small, thin source that produced diffused, unified light - not a spot pattern as is typical with LEDs. With some hard work and creativity, OSRAM and Mole were not only able to get it right - "they nailed it," said Johnson. Photo Courtesy of Marvel Studios™ & � 2011 Marvel & Subs www.marvel.com |
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LED and HID Technology Lights up 2013 Ford Mustang GT
For the last three decades, many of OSRAM's innovative automotive lighting ideas have come from the small New England village of Hillsboro, New Hampshire. OSRAM automotive lighting technology puts its latest innovations front and center on the 2013 Ford Mustang GT.
LED and high-intensity discharge (HID) bulbs are at the forefront of this technology. The Ford Mustang also incorporates mercury-free HID headlight bulbs, highlighting OSRAM's ongoing commitment to environmentally sustainable automotive technology.
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Industry News
February 21, 2013
11:00 AM EST / 10:00 AM CST / 8:00 AM PST / 4:00 PM GMT
The Webcast will look at the basics of color science relative to the human visual system, and describe how solid-state light (SSL) product design - lamps or luminaires - is progressing to deliver optimal light quality. The presentation will cover color rendering along with metrics such as CRI and CQS that help characterize SSL product performance.
Moreover, the discussion will include details of different architectural approaches to products that can deliver on the conflicting goals of producing warm white light and rendering colors optimally. George Kelly is an LED technical specialist at Avnet Electronics Marketing, and manager of the Avnet Light Lab. Moreover Kelly is the author of an ongoing series of technical articles in LEDs Magazine focused on color science.
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Featured Products
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LED Motion Sensor Light Move safely around your house. It's perfect for any d�cor and can be used indoors and outdoors. Learn more. |
RGB Night Light Functional and decorative. SYLVANIA night lights provide the right amount of light needed for visibility and peace of mind. Learn more. |
LED Work Light Perfect for anyone who does work around the house. Attach to metalic surfaces, pick up hard to reach metallic objects and more . Learn more. |
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