Workflow of CFL lighting

Aluminium Plates
Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor Wires Inductors/ Burners Ferrites Microprocessors Sensors Control Panel
Superconducting coil winding Assembling

Raw materials
The CFL lamp is manufactured from: Mercury and chromium used for the capsule of the electrode assembly. Phosphor used to create white light (the most commonly used phosphors for CFL lamps are europium and terbium). Copper pins for forming contacts. Tin base plate. Lead oxide for foam glass. Manganese oxide for foam glass. The CLF lens is predominantly the glass tube used to diffuse the light produced by the heated mercury gas. The lens is attached to the base of the lamp through a heat fusing process. CFLs use inert gases (argon) inside the tube in addition to the mercury gas. The typical lens contains: Borosilicate glass (composed of silica and boron) Inert gases (argon). The packaging for most CFLs is comprised of light cardboard, specifically paperboard, a paperbased material usually less than about 10 mils (0.010 inches [0.25 mm]) in thickness, and some type of plastic covering to protect the lamp from breakage. Because these lamps are in such widespread use, the amount of cardboard for the 4 billion CFLs that are likely to be produced each year is substantial, although recycling programs reduce the environmental impacts and landfill requirements for the paperboard product. A number of CFL manufacturers are taking steps to minimize or eliminate plastic packaging. CFL packaging contains: Cardboard (Paperboard) Plastic.

Manufacture and Distribution

This section describes the manufacture of integrated CFL technology, the type that is commonly used for residential lighting. Non-integrated CFL technology has not gained a foothold in the residential market. Raw materials are provided in finished form; for example, a manufacturer may secure rolls of tin that then can be cut and stamped to the shape and size needed for production of the finished product. Much of this is done off-site of the final assembly plant. CFLs are much more complicated to assemble than incandescent lamps, and the introduction of the mercury gas into the CFL tube requires extensive containment procedures, which may or may not be provided in existing manufacturing facilities. Most production is automated, which accounts for the majority of energy use during manufacturing, but significant human labor is required to produce the final product. Videos on the Web illustrate the production process for CFL lamps. CFLs are primarily comprised of two manufactured partsthe ballast and the gas-filled tube. This is understated because the ballast is actually a complicated printed circuit board with

Rectifiers. The gas-filled tube also has a phosphor coating that responds to ultraviolet light produced by the electric current interacting with mercury vapor to produce visible light.