RETROFITTING RECIPROCATING-COMPRESSORS FOR NOISE-CONTROL

Industrial noise has caused environmental noise pollution from many oi l and gas facilities. The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has enacted legislation to control excessive noise, which has c aused facilities to mitigate their operations. This paper presents a d escriptive case study of how an Alberta gas processing facility reduce d the amount of environmental noise it generated. by first assessing w hich plant equipment was responsible for the louder noise generation. and then by designing a balanced acoustical silencer retrofit program. The result was a significant noise reduction that met the ERCB requir ements.