Power Generation

Natural Gas / Diesel-Fired Engines

Noise Control Solutions for Natural Gas and Diesel-Fired Engines

Reciprocating engines power smaller-scale, backup and peaking generation, producing high-intensity exhaust and mechanical noise distinct from turbine-driven plants. Engine installations are often built close to the loads they serve, including industrial sites and developed areas, so exhaust, intake and casing noise must be controlled to meet site and community limits.

Noise Sources in Engine Power Plants

  • Engine Exhaust and Intake: strong low-frequency exhaust pulses and intake noise from each engine.
  • Engine Casing Radiated Noise: mechanical noise radiated from the engine block and surrounding structure.
  • Generator Sets: combined engine, generator and radiator noise from packaged units.
  • Anti-Icing and Cooling Systems: fan noise and air openings serving cooling and cold-climate operation.

How Burgess-Manning Controls Engine Noise

Reactive and absorptive silencers treat the exhaust and intake paths, which are the dominant noise sources on most installations. Acoustic enclosures and acoustic containers house the engine and generator set and contain casing noise.

Ventilation is engineered alongside the enclosure so that heat is removed without releasing noise. Fans, acoustic louvers, cooling and heating and anti-icing systems work as one system sized to the engine and the site, and filter silencers combine intake filtration with noise reduction at the inlet.

Power Generation SOLUTIONS

Burgess-Manning Industrial Noise Control Solutions

Reactive Silencer

Absorptive Silencer

Burgess Manning Filter Silencer on a pallet in a warehouse.

Filter Silencer

Acoustic generator enclosures with exhaust silencers.

Acoustic Enclosures

Workers guide a crane-lifted attenuator module onto the roof of a green acoustic container, alongside similar units with exhaust stacks at an outdoor site.

Acoustic Containers

Inertial filter louver panels installed along a building exterior

Ventilation Solutions

Acoustic louvres on a rooftop plant enclosure.

Acoustic Louvers

Rendering of an elevated air intake filtration housing with access stairs

Air intake filtration