Abstract
Power station lighting covers a wide field. Exterior lighting includes the lighting of roadway systems, railway sidings or wharves, coal handling plant and coal storage areas, and uses standard street lighting and area floodlighting techniques.
Interior lighting is more difficult. Boiler houses, however efficient, are always dusty, and the space much obstructed by pipes, flues, trunking, etc., making installation and maintenance awkward.
Two basic systems of lighting are discussed for the illumination of the turbine houses.
Problems arising in the control room—the nerve centre—depend closely on the interrelation of switch panel and control desk layouts and ceiling structure. Such lighting is best planned in the initial drawing board stage by close co-operation of all concerned.
Emergency lighting systems must also be provided.
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