Subjective Assessment Research of Middle Pressure Regulator Boxes in Urban Gas Industry

Abstract

In urban gas industry there are many middle pressure regulator boxes which locate in noise sensitive areas like Class 1 and Class 2 acoustic environment functional areas in where exist strict noise emission limit requirement. Compared with high pressure regulation stations these middle pressure ones generate lower level noise but they are still complained because of the boundary noise excessive emission caused by direct exposure outdoors and lack of noise control treatment like acoustic enclosures, sound barriers and walls’ baffle. Most of the existing research focused on the parameters like noise sound pressure level, sound power level and so on of these regulator boxes, and there is little achievement about the subjective assessment of the noise generated by them. But the values of noise subjective assessment are the major reasons and influential index of the surrounding environmental complaints. In this paper, some objective values of subjective assessment base on several typical middle pressure regulator boxes noise emission during gas supply peak are measured, calculated and analyzed, the results offer the scientific evidence for the noise control and subjective feeling improvement of these boxes.