INDUSTRIAL and MECHANICAL NOISE CONTROL
Mechanical equipment with utilities, industrial facilities, power
plants, and commercial complexes are often a source of noise impact and
community concern. The increased encroachment of residential and
industrial land uses is unavoidable with the expansion and development
within our cities. With this encroachment comes increased sensitivity of
the community and the need for industrial operations to address noise
issues. Criteria, in the form of noise and vibration ordinances,
regulations, and contractual agreements are often subject to
interpretation and can be conflicting. The need to address noise and
vibration during the planning, engineering, and start-up stages of a
project has become increasingly important to today’s industry leaders.
AAC’s principals, engineers, and noise specialists have extensive
experience in applied engineering acoustics and industrial and noise
control. The staff’s expertise includes community noise monitoring,
industrial noise emissions analyses, predictive noise propagation
modeling, noise impact assessments, and noise mitigation strategies.
AAC’s staff members have been solely responsible for the assessment of a
wide variety of acoustical environments ranging from natural gas-,
coal-, and diesel-fired power plants to petrochemical plants and
refineries to waste-water facilities and landfills. AAC’s library of
investigatory software includes commercial packages as well as several
powerful in-house, proprietary analysis models to evaluate every
possible noise condition. AAC’s staff members have completed numerous
noise studies for industrial facilities across the country; often
providing full-spectrum services, from baseline ambient surveys to
permitting support; from engineering design to equipment evaluation;
from construction monitoring to start-up troubleshooting; from
compliance verifications to retrofit remedies; from expert testimony to
giving presentations at public forums and meetings.
In general, industrial noise control can be grouped into three
categories of project involvement as follows:
• Facility Permitting Support
• Plant Engineering Design and Verification
• Retrofit Noise Abatement Evaluations and Treatment Recommendations
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