Enhancing growth of greenhouse crops with the xenon pulsed light

顶尖建筑维护有限公司(TBM)制造和销售脉冲氙灯(Pulse RX)，用于各种商业应用，专注于一般建筑维护和表面消毒。脉冲灯能够以比目前商业上可用的灯更高的能效在不同的所需光谱下产生高辐射的瞬时脉冲。因此，氙气脉冲光技术的使用减少了碳足迹。此外，与高辐射高压钠灯不同，氙气灯不使用汞作为其组件之一，因此具有额外的环境效益。脉冲RX灯节能环保，可产生高辐照度的光，其光谱输出与最佳植物生长和生产力所需的太阳的光谱输出相似。因此，TBM希望将其高辐射脉冲光技术扩展到温室行业。安大略省的温室产业目前主要使用高压钠灯，这对环境造成了过度破坏，给电网带来了高负荷。然而，目前尚不清楚高辐射脉冲氙灯在提供最佳植物生长和生产力方面是否等同于或优于高压钠灯。使用脉冲发光二极管技术有迹象表明，脉冲光可能会对光合作用产生刺激作用，从而促进植物生长。因此，Topnotch建筑维护有限公司正在与西方大学和光合作用和光信号方面的顶级专家Norman P.A.Hüner教授合作，研究Pulse RX氙灯技术对温室作物最佳生长和生产力的适用性和优势。

Topnotch Building Maintenance Ltd (TBM) manufactures and sells pulsed xenon lights (Pulse RX) for a variety of commercial applications focussed general building maintenance and sterilization of surfaces. Pulsed lights are capable of producing instant pulses of high irradiance at different desired light spectra at higher energy efficiency than currently commercially available lights. Thus, the use of xenon pulsed light technology reduces carbon footprint. Additionally, xenon lights do not use mercury as one of its components, unlike the high irradiance high-pressure sodium lights, and therefore there is an added environmental benefit. Pulse RX lights are energy efficient, environmentally friendly and produce high irradiance light with a spectral output similar to that of the sun required for optimal plant growth and productivity. Consequently, TBM would like to expand its high irradiance pulsed light technology into the greenhouse industry. Ontario's greenhouse industry currently uses mainly high-pressure sodium lights which are causing excessive damage to the environment and high loading on the power grid. However, it is not known if high irradiance pulsed xenon lights are equal to or superior to high-pressure sodium lights in their ability to provide optimal plant growth and productivity. There are indications from the use of pulsed light emitting diode technology that pulsed light may have a stimulatory effect on photosynthesis and thus plant growth. Therefore, Topnotch Building Maintenance Ltd. is partnering with Western University and Prof. Norman P.A. Hüner, a top expert in photosynthesis and light signalling, to investigate the suitability and advantages of the Pulse RX xenon light technology for optimal growth and productivity of greenhouse crops.