Towards the use of secondary windscreens to improve wind turbine sound measurements

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2019
Veranstaltung15th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy - Nantes, Frankreich
Dauer: 29 Okt. 201930 Okt. 2019

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Konferenz15th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy
Land/GebietFrankreich
Zeitraum29 Okt. 201930 Okt. 2019

Abstract

One of the major challenges for acoustic measurements nearby wind turbines is a sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio between wind turbine and background noise. In the low frequency bands, the background noise is characterized by wind-induced noise at the microphone, which are caused by inflow turbulences. Those turbulences and hence, the wind-induced noise can be reduced by wind- screens. In this contribution, four windscreen configurations are analysed regarding their influence on the acoustic properties and their potential of excess noise reduction. Hereby, a standard primary windscreen and secondary windscreens with different diameters and amount of layers are used.
The measured insertion loss increase with higher frequencies and with the amount of windscreen layers. Hence, the acoustic properties are most strongly affected by the windscreen with a triple layer. In the relevant low-frequency bands, all windscreen configurations have a small influence on the acoustic properties. Results of a field test nearby a wind turbine show that at 7 m/s the excess noise dominates octave bands below 125 Hz and covers the turbine noise using only a primary wind- screen. This excess noise can be reduced by up to 10 dB using secondary windscreens so that the wind turbine noise is detectable. Considering only the field test, the windscreen with a triple layer has the biggest potential to reduce the wind-induced noise at microphones.

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Towards the use of secondary windscreens to improve wind turbine sound measurements. / Martens, Susanne; Bohne, Tobias; Rolfes, Raimund.
2019. Beitrag in 15th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy , Frankreich.

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