Enhancing growth of greenhouse crops with a modified xenon pulsed lamp

Topnotch建筑维护有限公司（TBM）制造和销售脉冲氙灯（脉冲RX），用于各种商业应用，重点是一般建筑维护和表面消毒。脉冲灯能够在不同的期望光谱下产生高辐照度的瞬时脉冲，比目前商用的灯具有更高的能源效率。因此，使用氙气脉冲光技术可以减少碳足迹。此外，氙灯不使用汞作为其组成部分之一，不像高辐照度高压钠灯，因此有一个额外的环境效益。由于脉冲RX灯节能，环保，并产生高辐照度光，其光谱输出与最佳植物生长和生产力所需的太阳相似，因此，TBM希望将其高辐照度脉冲光技术扩展到温室产业。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的破坏，对电网造成了高负荷。然而，目前尚不清楚高辐照脉冲氙灯在提供最佳植物生长和生产力方面是否等于或优于高压钠灯。之前与TBM的合作表明，脉冲RX灯的强度必须进行修改，以允许光强度控制的灵活性。这已经实现了。因此，Topnotch建筑维护有限公司与西部大学和光合作用和光信号领域的顶级专家Norman P.A. h<e:1> ner教授合作，研究改良脉冲RX氙光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. Since 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. The previous Engage Grant with TBM indicated that the intensity of the Pulse RX lamp must be modified to allow for flexibility in the control of light intensity. This has been accomplished. Therefore, Topnotch Building Maintanance Ltd. is partnering with Western University and Prof. Norman P.A. Hüner, a top expert in photosynthesis and light signaling, to investigate the suitability and advantages of the modified Pulse RX xenon light technology for optimal growth and productivity of greenhouse crops.