Measurements and Acoustic Analyses of Infrasound Noise Emitted by Operation of Small, Building Mounted Wind Farm

• Authors: R. Pierzga , T. Boczar , D. Wotzka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Operation of modern wind turbines generates infrasound noise which is known as potentially harmful for humans. In presented study, measurements of infrasound noise generated by operation of five vertical axis, building mounted, small wind turbines were conducted. Measurements were taken in urban area at several points and different distances from the installation. Analyses were performed to determine the level of emitted infrasound noise in vicinity of the installation. Comparative analyses were carried out and the achieved results were referred to the limits of sound pressure intensity level of infrasound signals as specified for the working environment in accordance with the Polish standard PN-Z-01338.

Keywords

EN

43.28.Dm; 88.50.gp; 88.50.jj

Discipline

• 88.50.jj: Small-scale wind farms
• 88.50.gp: Testing

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 294-298

Dates

published

2015-09

received

2014-07-08

(unknown)

2015-04-17

Contributors

author

R. Pierzga

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Prószkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland

author

T. Boczar

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Prószkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland

author

D. Wotzka

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Prószkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.128.294