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Advanced Thermal Device LED Streetlight

Don’t you just hate it… driving through neighborhoods that are poorly lit at night? – it gives me the creeps. Sometimes, there are even streetlights that don’t even function, making it an even more terrifying ride especially when you know you’re in a rather rough area.

Advanced Thermal Devices (ATD), along with the KongLin Tech Group, the New Energy Center of National Taiwan University and the Russian Academy of Sciences, has developed a globally patented low-cost loop heat pipe (LHP) product and system.

Advanced Thermal Device’s LED streetlight has an expected life of over 50,000 hours. The product generates 4,000-6,000 lumens at 100W power input and its energy savings can be up to 75% compared with mercury lamps.

With its heat dissipation using advanced aerospace technology and employing an unique lightweight design, the LED streetlight satisfies the United Nation’s Environmental Protection Regulations.

The efficient and reliable heat transfer and heat dissipation capacities of the device can be used in various high-performance electronic products such as computers, high-power LED lighting systems, and many energy products in commercial, industrial and aerospace industries.

The loop heat pipe is a heat-transfer device with a flexible, bendable connecting pipe utilizing a fine porous or wick structure in micro scale to achieve remote heat transport with high power, accoring to Advanced Thermal Devices When will we see these streetlights dot the Stateside landscape?

Tags: LHP, advanced thermal device, LED, streetlight, light