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Noise Control Solutions for Oil & Gas Refineries, Gas Plants & LNG Facilities

Oil and gas refineries, natural gas processing plants and LNG facilities represent remarkably intensive and acoustically challenging industrial environments, generating intense noise levels from complex processing equipment, high-pressure systems and continuous operations. Hydrocarbon processing facilities require comprehensive noise control solutions to ensure worker safety, regulatory compliance, community relations and operational efficiency.

Pumps, compressors, turbines and steam systems produce continuous and often hazardous noise. Refineries implement a combination of strategies including custom-engineered silencers and noise acoustic walls as noise control solutions. Reactive and absorptive silencers are commonly used to dampen high-velocity discharge noise of:  

  • Vent Stacks
  • Blowdown Systems
  • Relief Valves

Meanwhile, rotating equipment like compressors and turbines are frequently enclosed in acoustic walls designed to reduce both airborne and structure-borne sound. Acoustic modeling and noise measurements are performed as part of facility design or during upgrades to identify critical noise sources and develop tailored mitigation plans. Additionally, many refineries retrofit aging infrastructure with updated noise control systems to reduce exposure for employees and lessen impact on surrounding communities.

Natural gas processing plants often engage in noise measurement, site surveys and detailed acoustic modeling, to identify dominant noise sources and evaluate the effectiveness of potential solutions. Retrofitting is employed when operational changes or equipment upgrades introduce new acoustic challenges.

Gas plants operate high-pressure equipment such as compressors, turbines, flare systems, dehydrators and pressure relief valves that generate substantial noise during both continuous operation and intermittent events. To mitigate noise gas plants deploy tailored silencing systems including absorptive, reactive, flue gas and silencers on vent lines, blowdown stacks and discharge systems. Acoustic barriers are also installed around rotating machinery like compressors and engines. 

Due to the use of high-energy processes required for liquefaction, storage and transfer of natural gas, LNG facilities are major sources of intense noise. Equipment examples below contribute to the complex acoustic profile of these facilities and makes noise control essential in LNG facility design and upgrades.

  • Gas Compressors 
  • Cryogenic Pumps and Vaporizers 
  • Venting Systems such as Flaring and Pressure Relief Valves
  • Rotating Equipment like Turbines and Blowers 
  • Piping Systems with Turbulent Flows
  • Loading Operations 

Noise Control Solutions for Oil & Gas Refineries, Gas Plants & LNG Facilities

Oil and gas refineries, natural gas processing plants and LNG facilities represent remarkably intensive and acoustically challenging industrial environments, generating intense noise levels from complex processing equipment, high-pressure systems and continuous operations. Hydrocarbon processing facilities require comprehensive noise control solutions to ensure worker safety, regulatory compliance, community relations and operational efficiency.

Pumps, compressors, turbines and steam systems produce continuous and often hazardous noise. Refineries implement a combination of strategies including custom-engineered silencers and noise acoustic walls as noise control solutions. Reactive and absorptive silencers are commonly used to dampen high-velocity discharge noise of:  

  • Vent Stacks
  • Blowdown Systems
  • Relief Valves

Meanwhile, rotating equipment like compressors and turbines are frequently enclosed in acoustic walls designed to reduce both airborne and structure-borne sound. Acoustic modeling and noise measurements are performed as part of facility design or during upgrades to identify critical noise sources and develop tailored mitigation plans. Additionally, many refineries retrofit aging infrastructure with updated noise control systems to reduce exposure for employees and lessen impact on surrounding communities.

Gas plants operate high-pressure equipment such as compressors, turbines, flare systems, dehydrators and pressure relief valves that generate substantial noise during both continuous operation and intermittent events. To mitigate noise gas plants deploy tailored silencing systems including: 

  • Reactive Silencers
  • Flue Gas Silencers
  • Silencers on vent lines, blowdown stacks and discharge systems
  • Acoustic barriers around rotating machinery like compressors and engines 

Acoustic barriers around rotating machinery like compressors and engines 
Natural gas processing plants often engage in noise measurement, site surveys and detailed acoustic modeling, to identify dominant noise sources and evaluate the effectiveness of potential solutions. Retrofitting of noise control solutions is employed when operational changes or equipment upgrades introduce new acoustic challenges.

Due to the use of high-energy processes required for liquefaction, storage and transfer of natural gas, LNG facilities are major sources of intense noise. Equipment examples below contribute to the complex acoustic profile of these facilities and makes noise control essential in LNG facility design and upgrades.

  • Gas Compressors 
  • Cryogenic Pumps and Vaporizers 
  • Venting Systems such as Flaring and Pressure Relief Valves
  • Rotating Equipment like Turbines and Blowers 
  • Piping Systems with Turbulent Flows
  • Loading Operations 
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Customized noise reduction solutions, backed by decades of technical expertise and deep industry insight to achieve safe, efficient and regulatory-compliant operations through precision-engineered noise control technologies.

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Upgrades and retrofits

System upgrades and retrofits through engineered design enhancements to increase performance and efficiency of existing systems.

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Acoustic studies and noise measurements

On-site surveys and assessments, capturing ambient and equipment-generated noise levels and identification of unique on-site constraints to establish baseline measurements.

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