Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
Custom silencers, enclosures and ventilation for concentrated solar power noise control challenges.
Noise Control Solutions for Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrated Solar Power uses mirrors or lenses to heat a working fluid that drives a conventional steam turbine, which gives CSP plants a noise profile much closer to a thermal power plant than to other solar facilities. CSP sites carry the same rotating equipment and heat transfer noise sources found at conventional steam-cycle plants.
Combined cycle plants generate noise from multiple interconnected systems that operate simultaneously, and noise increases significantly during startup. Unmitigated startup noise can reach levels 20 dB higher than baseload operation because of bypass operations, steam venting and rapid load changes.
Noise Sources in CSP Plants
How Burgess-Manning Controls CSP Noise
Acoustic enclosures and acoustic shrouds contain noise from the steam turbine, generator and pumps, while ventilation systems with acoustic louvers keep enclosures cool without releasing sound. Inline diffusers and spargers handle steam expansion from turbine bypass, vent silencers treat steam and gas discharge and commissioning silencers control the noise of steam blows used to clean piping before startup.
Burgess-Manning Industrial Noise Control Solutions
Inline Diffuser/Sparger
Vent Silencer
Commissioning Silencer
Acoustic Enclosures
Acoustic Shrouds
Switchgear rooms
Ventilation Solutions
