The noise levels

The noise levels in cities have been increasing year over year, and these increases could, within a few decades, lead to an environment so noisy as to have a harmful effect on the health of residents and to a reduction in their quality of life. For this reason, the level of acoustic pollution caused by equipment is an important factor to be considered. The ‘noise’ level of equipment can also provide a competitive advantage to one producer over another.
Measuring acoustic pollution
On a European Union level, a directive on noise can be expected, which will set limits to the amount of noise generated by various products and equipment. Eurovent, aware of this situation, decided very early on to introduce sound power as a certified characteristic, which is published in its Directory of Certified Products.

The conference

“The conference helps us as a beginning, not an ending. We should not continue to apply the so-called direct line-model that governments are no longer prepared to support. We should adopt the teamwork model to reach our common goal, as was proposed by Prof. Bredesen of NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, for both the chemical and natural working fluid strategies. By accepting that there are two different approaches, but one common team of players with the same objective, it will be possible to come up with the solutions society needs and asks for. Society will eventually decide”.
International organisations like the IEA have an important role to play in bringing forward new energy solutions for a cleaner world.
The proceedings of the conference can be ordered from the HPC; for price information, see the Publications section of the website