Wind Turbine Noise 2009
2009 - Arrangements and Programme
Noise course
The Course on Tuesday 16th June, will take place in the Bote Salen on the ground floor of Hotel Hvide Hus
Registration at 13.50
Start 14.00
End around 19.00
Registration
On Tuesday 16th, delegate registration for the conference will take place between 18.00 - 20.00 at the restaurant on the 16th floor when a light buffet will be served.
On Thursday 17th registration will be at 08:15 - 08:30 before the start of the conference.
Conference Reception
On Wednesday evening the reception is being held in Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art which can be seen from the hotel and is about a 5 minute walk. It is being hosted by the Mayor of the City of Aalborg It starts at 18.00 and will last for approximately 1 hour, allowing delegates to make their own arrangements for dinner (which is not included in the conference fee)
Conference Banquet
On Thursday evening the Conference Banquet is at a restaurant called Røverstuen near the Rebild National Park south of Aalborg which is about a 20-25 minutes trip. View menu The coaches leave the hotel at 18.45 and leave the restaurant about 22.30 This is included in the conference fee.
Closing Reception
To be announced later
Programme
This is the current programme for Wind Turbine Noise 2009. The organisers reserve the right to make last minute changes should circumstances change
| Tuesday 16th June | ||
| 13.50 - 19.00 | Noise Course | |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Registration | |
| Wednesday 17th June | ||
| 08.15 | Registration | |
| 08.40 | Opening of Conference | |
| 09.00 | Effects of wind turbine noise on humans | Eja Pedersen |
| 09.20 | Large wind turbines - noise and neighbours | Kirsten Nielsen & Bent Christensen |
| 09.40 | Seismic Effect on Residents from 3 MW Wind Turbines | Bakker, H.H.C., Bennett, D.J., Rapley, B. & Thorne, R. |
| 10.00 | The influence of natural ambient sounds on wind turbine noise | Karl Bolin & Mats E. Nilsson |
| 10.20 | Discussion | |
| 10.40 | Break | |
| 11.00 | An estimation method of the amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise for community response assessment | Seunghoon Lee, Kyutae Kim, Seungmin Lee, Hogeon Kim and Soogab Lee |
| 11.20 | Using the Noise Perception Index (NPI) for assessing wind turbine noise | George F. Hessler Jr., Bd. Cert. INCE |
| 11.40 | Discussion | |
| 12.20 | Lunch | |
| 13.40 | The Use of Noise Perception Index (NPI) For Setting Wind Farm Noise Limits | Malcolm Hunt & Lindsay Hannah |
| 14.00 | Impact of wind turbine noise in the Netherlands | Jan Jabben, Edwin Verheijen & Eric Schreurs |
| 14.20 | A critical look at the wind turbine noise regime in Norway. | Sigurd Solberg & Inge Hommedal |
| 14.40 | Oregon’s Wind Turbine Noise Regulations | Mark Bastasch |
| 15.00 | Wind Turbine Noise in the United States: The Environmental Speed Limit vs. Worst Case Noise Analyses | Tim Casey |
| 15.20 | Discussion | |
| 15.40 | Break | |
| 16.00 | Unsteady Aerodynamics and Inflow Noise | Brian Riget Broe |
| 16.20 | Comparison and Validation of Trailing Edge Noise Models | Franck Bertagnolio, Helge Aa. Madsen & Christian Bak |
| 16.40 | Design of low noise airfoil with high aerodynamic performance | Christian Bak, Franck Bertagnolio & Helge Aa. Madsen |
| 17.00 | Practical effects of a typical divided rotor blades on aerodynamic noise: a glimpse on future prospects for wind farms and micro turbines | Emmanuel Gadaix |
| 17.20 | Discussion | |
| 17.40 | Close | |
| 18.00 | Reception at Modern Art Gallery | |
| Thursday 18th June | ||
| 08.40 | Prediction of wind turbine noise directivity and swish | Stefan Oerlemans & Gerard Schepers |
| 09.00 | A New Explanation for Wind Turbine Whoosh – Wind Shear | William K.G. Palmer |
| 09.20 | Wind Shear and its Effect on Noise Assessment | Dick Bowdler |
| 09.40 | Wind Turbine Noise Diagnostics | Werner Richarz & Harrison Richarz |
| 10.00 | Case Study: Wind Turbine Noise in a small and quiet community in Finland | Carlo Di Napo |
| 10.20 | Discussion | |
| 10.40 | Break | |
| 11.00 | Wind Tunnel Testing of Microphone Windscreen Performance Applied to Field Measurements of Wind Turbines | David M. Hessler |
| 11.20 | The Parabolic Microphone for Directional Measurements on Wind Turbines | Lars Enggaard |
| 11.40 | Objective calculation of tonal penalty and its implementation in sound level meters and PC software | Thorvald Wetlesen, Ole-Herman Bjor & Igor Nikoli & Svein Arne Nordby |
| 12.00 | Monitoring, Analyzing, and Adjusting Wind Turbine Systems | Daryoush Allaei & Dave Tarnowski |
| 12.20 | Discussion | |
| 12.40 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Comparison of Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Noise Data for Use in Wind Farm Assessments | Sylvia Broneske |
| 14.20 | Assessment of Acoustic Emissions of a Wind Turbine in India | |
| 14.40 | The next version of the IEC 61400-11 measurement method | Søndergaard Bo |
| 15.00 | National Wind Technology Center Current and Past Testing Activities for Small Wind Turbines | Arlinda Huskey & Jeroen van Dam |
| 15.20 | Discussion | |
| 15.40 | Break | |
| 16.00 | Sound Emission and Sound Propagation for Wind Turbines in Forest Terrain | Martin Almgren, Stephan Schönfeld & Josefin Grönlund |
| 16.20 | Measurement and assessment of WT noise in the Czech Republic | Ales Jiraska |
| 16.40 | A Comparison of Background Noise Levels Collected at the Portland Wind Energy Project in Victoria, Australia | Christophe Delaire & Daniel Walsh |
| 17.00 | Recent Developments in Assessment Guidelines for Sound from Wind Power Projects in Ontario, Canada with a Comparison to Acoustic Audit Results | Brian Howe & Nick McCabe |
| 17.20 | Comprehensive Evaluation and Assessment of Trailing Edge Noise Prediction Based on Dedicated Measurements | M. Kamruzzaman, A. Herrig, Th. Lutz, W. Würz, E. Krämer & S. Wagner |
| 17.40 | Discussion | |
| 18.00 | Close | |
| 18.40 | Bus departure for Conference Banquet | |
| Friday 19th June | ||
| 08.40 | Long distance sound propagation over a sea surface | B.L. Andersson, K. Bolin, A. Cederholm & I. Karasalo |
| 09.00 | Wind Turbine Acoustic Modeling with the ISO 9613-2 Standard: Methodologies to Address Constraints | Erik J. Kalapinski & Tricia Pellerin |
| 09.20 | Implementation of the Nord2000 model for wind turbines: New possibilities for calculating noise impact. | Thomas Sørensen , Per Nielsen, Jens Villadsen & Birger Plovsing |
| 09.40 | Prediction of noise from wind farms with Nord2000. Part 1 | Søndergaard Bo & Plovsing Birger |
| 10.00 | Prediction of noise from wind farms with Nord2000. Part 2 | Birger Plovsing & Bo Søndergaard |
| 10.20 | Discussion | |
| 10.40 | Break | |
| 11.00 | Wind Farm Noise Predictions and Comparison with Measurements | Andrew Bullmore, Justin Adcock, Mark Jiggins & Matthew Cand |
| 11.20 | A risk management strategy related to wind farm noise emissions | Francois Costes |
| 11.40 | Optimization of energy production of a large windfarm with noise constraints: a numerical toolkit | Andrea Bartolazzi & Michelangelo Mariani |
| 12.00 | Discussion | |
| 12.40 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Wind farm noise measurements and residual noise estimation by modelling | Roberto Ziliani |
| 14.20 | An Alternative Approach to Explaining Wind Farm Noise to Community Groups | Paul Botha & Fraser Clark |
| 14.40 | A study of the seismic disturbance produced by the wind park near the gravitational wave detector GEO-600 | Irene Fiori, Lara Giordano, Stephan Hild, Giovanni Losurdo, Emanuele Marchetti, Gillian Mayer & Federico Paoletti |
| 15.00 | Investigation into onshore noise emanating from piling operations during the construction phase of Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. | Martin Patrick Court & Andrew Rutson-Edwards |
| 15.20 | Vibration and noise of a horizontal axis wind turbine | Maria Golec & Zdzislaw Golec |
| 15.40 | Discussion | |
| 16.00 | Close and Farewell |
