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Combined limitation of noise and polluting emissions from thermal generators

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Published: 05 July 2023

Thermal generators have many advantages when it comes to producing electricity in various contexts (not only in the form of gensets to constitute a constant source of power or to supplement mains failures: sometimes also for cogeneration, i.e. simultaneous electricity and heat production), both with regard to the methods of implementing a facility (e.g. prerequisites, time interval before commissioning, cost, maintenance) and with regard to what concerns operating conditions (e.g. modularity...

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Reduction of employees exposure to the noise emitted by a machine tool

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Published: 04 June 2023

Exposure of employees to the noise emitted by a machine tool is highly undesirable:

• for employees themselves:
  • deteriorating working conditions, causing difficulties in communicating and in perceiving audible warning signals
  • causing discomfort, fatigue, stress or even hearing loss
• for employers:
  • resulting, depending on the context, in loss of quality of workshop production, absenteeism, difficulties in filling some positions or even costs for compensation for deafness when...

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Limitation of reverberation and noise by means of acoustic screens in a collective catering room

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Published: 02 May 2023

The limitation of reverberation and noise by means of acoustic screens is suitable for obtaining sound comfort for a wide variety of enclosed spaces:

• in the canteens of educational establishments^[1], and in other collective catering rooms (medico-social i.e. in hospitals^[2], retirement homes, for administrations and companies^[3],[4] and also for holiday centres) without forgetting commercial catering (e.g. restaurants, brasseries, cafeterias, snack bars, fast food establishments.
• in open...

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