Compressor Noise Control - Acoustic Enclosures
Wiltech Acoustics designs and manufactures acoustic enclosures for industrial compressor noise control. In common with many other mechanical or electro-mechanical products, compressors can represent a major source of unwanted noise in the industrial environment. However, many individuals’ perception of compressors is that they represent a more obtrusive source of noise than other equipment, mainly due to proximity and working accessibility. Typically they average around 85dBA which means they are nearly always subject to some noise mitigation requirements to meet the Noise at Work Regulations 2005.
Just one compressor on the shop floor can cause unacceptable noise, but naturally, this is multiplied with multiple machines. The level of noise generated varies according to the type of compressor, but in general, the more moving parts, the louder the noise. Reciprocating compressors add additional vibration control requirements to manage the transfer of structural borne noise. This noise is amplified and spread in typical industrial environments involving concrete floors, hard surfaces and larger reverberant open areas. Excessive compressor noise in the workplace can negatively impact on workforce health, morale, motivation, communication and productivity.
We design and manufacture noise control solutions which integrate with your products to satisfy or exceed your customers’ requirements for workforce safety, regulatory compliance and community responsibility.
Our expertise and experience enable us to deliver across these key criteria:
– Acoustic specification for both noise and workforce health & safety regulations
– Full integration with OEM machinery, ensuring its performance is not compromised
– Operational performance across safety, quality, cost and ongoing project programme
– Enhance your capability as a turnkey, single-source solution provider
– A strong working partnership with long term benefits
With long experience of delivering solutions for some of the most challenging applications, our dedicated OEM Team brings the wider expertise required to design, manufacture and integrate enclosure systems that meet or exceed your requirements whilst perfectly complementing your own products. We strive to understand the specific design, operation, characteristics, inputs and outputs of your compressors so that we can work with you to provide the most effective noise reduction solution. You can read more on how we manage the development process on our OEM Solutions page.
We can also help and support your wider customer proposition by incorporating noise reduction solutions in your marketing and sales development activity. Our OEM Team is ready to provide support and service in noise control and acoustics to all areas of you business. Our acoustic enclosures animation demonstrates how we bring complex noise control and engineering design together to deliver on your requirements:
There are many sources of noise generated by compressors, depending largely on the design and nature of the compressor itself. In this animation the requirement is to reduce the 110dB(A) noise source to 75dB(A) @ 1 metre.
We design the structure, panel specification and build sequence of your acoustic enclosures in accordance with your environmental, health & safety, noise level, aesthetic and other requirements, all determined and agreed at the needs assessment stage of the project. 
On completion, the enclosure is tested with the compressor in situ and certified to
Working closely with you from the outset, our in-house engineering teams use a number of different techniques to ensure an effective noise reduction solution that does not compromise the effectiveness of the compressor. 
Our solution as represented in the compressor enclosure animation shows a build onto an existing steel framework which hosts the compressor equipment. 
