The EU Directive 2002/49/EC or Environmental Noise Directive (END) aims to define a common approach intended to avoid, prevent or reduce the harmful effects, including annoyance, due to exposure to environmental noise. Under this Directive, member states are obliged to produce the noise maps of the major roads, railways airports, large agglomerations and industrial activity sites. The first maps had to be produced for the main agglomerations by July 2007 and the first action plans should be activated no lather than July 2008. In this work we consider the industrial noise produced by municipal waste incineration; the study was developed to provide data of the sound power level along the facades buildings and contours of this site that can be used to produce strategic noise maps. To characterize the impact of the waste incineration plant, measurements of the noise emissions were performed in situ. The distribution of sound power and sound input levels have been calculated by SoundPLAN® computer model. The results of this work can provide a re-applicable method for the production of noise levels due to industrial noise sources. The results are suitable to be included in noise maps for agglomerations, in line with the END expectation.

Evaluation of municipal waste incineration impact on environmental noise

CONTI, FABIO;
2008-01-01

Abstract

The EU Directive 2002/49/EC or Environmental Noise Directive (END) aims to define a common approach intended to avoid, prevent or reduce the harmful effects, including annoyance, due to exposure to environmental noise. Under this Directive, member states are obliged to produce the noise maps of the major roads, railways airports, large agglomerations and industrial activity sites. The first maps had to be produced for the main agglomerations by July 2007 and the first action plans should be activated no lather than July 2008. In this work we consider the industrial noise produced by municipal waste incineration; the study was developed to provide data of the sound power level along the facades buildings and contours of this site that can be used to produce strategic noise maps. To characterize the impact of the waste incineration plant, measurements of the noise emissions were performed in situ. The distribution of sound power and sound input levels have been calculated by SoundPLAN® computer model. The results of this work can provide a re-applicable method for the production of noise levels due to industrial noise sources. The results are suitable to be included in noise maps for agglomerations, in line with the END expectation.
2008
Di Girolamo, C.; Conti, Fabio; Nava, E.; Vurro, B.; Raimondo, A.
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