Evaluation of noise levels of micro-wind turbines using a randomised experiment

Title: Evaluation of noise levels of micro-wind turbines using a randomised experiment
Creator: Clohessy, Chantelle May
Subject: Wind turbines -- Noise
Subject: Wind turbines -- valuation
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:10508
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015974
Description: One of the biggest environmental concerns of a wind turbine is the wind turbine noise (Prospathopoulos and Voutsinas, 2007). This study assesses the noise impacts of wind turbines on the environment by comparing the micro-wind turbine noise to traditional accepted surrounding sounds. The collection of the sound level data was done by using a randomised experiment. The sound level data was then fitted to a General Linear Model to determine the relationship between the sound levels generated at a given site to the time of day, wind speed, wind direction and distance from the sound source. An additional study was conducted to determine the relationship between wind speed and the sound levels of wind turbines. The distribution of frequency components of wind turbine sound was also determined.
Format: x, 106 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publisher: Faculty of Science
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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