Investigation of occupational noise annoyance in a wind turbine power plant

• Published in: Journal of low frequency noise, vibration, and active control Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 798 - 807
• Main Authors: Monazzam, Mohammad R, Zakerian, Seyed A, Kazemi, Zeinab, Ebrahimi, Mohammad H, Ghaljahi, Maryam, Mehri, Ahmad, Afkhaminia, Farzaneh, Abbasi, Milad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2019; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Age; Airports; Electric power generation; Noise levels; Noise sensitivity; Power plants; Risk analysis; Visibility; Wind power; Wind turbines; Noise annoyance; wind turbine noise; workers; noise sensitivity

Noise, emitted by wind turbines, is one of the main health risk factors which has been recently considered in many researches. Noise annoyance is among the most important human responses to noise. The aim of this work was to modeling of annoyance due to noise at workplace coming from wind turbines i...