The call for abstracts closed on Sunday 22 May 2016.
Note to students: to facilitate participation, WindEurope will support travel and accommodation expenses (within limits) if the selected oral presentation is by a full-time student (e.g. PhD or similar).
General Abstracts requirements – for all topics
- Innovative content: abstracts should contain new work, not yet published
- No commercial content please: overtly commercial abstracts will receive low ratings.
- Contribution to industry knowledge: abstracts should strive to present data or results that can contribute to bringing the industry forward
- The correct topic must be selected to ensure correct scoring. The content of the abstract must be topic-related. It is the responsibility of the submitter to ensure that abstracts are submitted under the correct topic.
- Abstract format: plain text (no tables, graphs, charts or images)
General threads
The Wind Turbine Sound 2016 workshop had common threads running through the different sessions:
- Amplitude modulation (AM/OAM)
- Low-frequency sounds (LFS)
- Sound levels
- Tones
Topics
Abstracts connected to the following topics and relating to the above-mentionned general threads will be preferred:
Topic 1: Human perception of noise
Topic 2: National guidelines
Abstracts relating to the above-mentioned general threads and the following issues will be preferred:
- Existing national and regional policies and regulations for wind turbine noise
- Potential revisions to explicitly address unique characteristics of wind turbine sounds
Topic 3: Real-world noise measurements
Abstracts relating to the above-mentionned general threads and the following issues will be preferred:
- Quality and consistency of different methods for assessing the noise in the surroundings
- Measurements of sound power levels combined with predictions for single wind turbines
- Farfield measurements on entire wind farms
- Assessing tonality, impulsivity, AM and other subjective/objective parameters
- Permanent noise monitoring stations
Topic 4: Wind farm design, siting and operations
Abstracts relating to the above-mentionned general threads and the following issues will be preferred:
- Impact of noise constraints on the design of onshore wind farms
- Good practices around noise propagation simulation methods
- How site specific noise constrains have been considered by siting as well as farm/turbine operation aspects.
- Examples of actual or virtual wind farm developments
- Micro-sites Modelling of the impact of such measures on wind farm performance and operations
- Real-world case studies – optimisation of noise curtailment through active control
Topic 5: Wind turbine design
Abstracts relating to the above-mentioned general threads and the following issues will be preferred:
- Wind turbine noise manipulation techniques
