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A Comparative Study of Noise Exposure behavior in Different Thermal Power Plants

SAURAV NANDI, Debamalya Banerjee, Somnath Gangopadhyay, Titas Nandi, Tirtharaj Sen

Abstract


Electrical power is indispensible in today’s human life and a good amount of workers are being directly exposed to that acoustic noise which is being emitted everyday from the thermal power plants while generating the power. The present investigation is the comparative study of noise exposure behavior depending on different responsible parameters of generation in thermal power plants in West Bengal affecting the workers working at power generating area of the plants. From this study, we came across that the ageing factor with others effects the growth of the noise generation of the turbo generator in the thermal power plant.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jpnc.v3i1.339

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