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Custom acoustic solutions for solar power generation noise control challenges.

Noise Control Solutions for Solar Power Generation

Solar power generation has a lighter acoustic footprint than combustion plants, with noise concentrated in power electronics and auxiliary equipment rather than large rotating machinery or exhaust systems. Inverters, transformers, switchgear, tracking motors and the cooling fans that serve electrical equipment are the main sources at photovoltaic sites. Switchgear rooms, acoustic enclosures and containers, ventilation systems and noise barriers keep them within site limits.

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. These sites carry the same rotating equipment and heat transfer noise sources found at conventional steam-cycle plants.

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