Manufacturing
Industries may manufacture different goods but they often do
this using common sub-plants and types of equipment. Pumps,
motors, compressors, conveyors are all equipment used in manufacturing.
Ancillary environmental processes, such as water treatment plants,
are also widely used. How these smaller items of equipment
and sub-plants are arranged and where and how they are located
will define the overall noise from the manufacturing plant.
Noise within factory areas, especially within buildings is subject
to Noise Assessments, which protect employees hearing. Noise
reduction is usually developed by the supplier of the equipment
and purchased as a 'quiet option'. As factories
have become more automated, employees spend less time next to
machines and more in control areas. Their noise exposures
are therefore reducing.
However, noise to the community is becoming more of an issue as
society and governments expect this to reduce to improve quality
of life. The PPC regulatory environment within the UK for
example applies each year to more sectors of industry. The
strategy in PPC is to continually reduce environmental noise using
benchmarking and best available noise control techniques
(BAT). Guidance on how this is done and typical target noise
limits are contained in the Environment Agency's H3 Guidance document.
Other projects include:
- Various GlaxoSmithKline sites in UK
- Millennium Chemicals, Humberside for Lyondell
- Tetrapak, UK
- Kimberly Clark
- Kams Mills for Leicester
Paper Company
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Aylesford
Newsprint, UK |
The UK's leading manufacture of
newsprint from recycled paper asked Spectrum to prepare
an Environmental Noise Report for a planned £100m expansion
of their site at Aylesford, UK.
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