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Noise Pollution and Environmental Sustainability

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 4718

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kinga Szopińska

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Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Av. S. Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: Environmental Engineering; urban planning; urban development; City Planning; civil engineering; Air Quality; acoustics; noise analysis; Real Estate Management; spatial information systems
Dr. Małgorzata Sztubecka

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Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Av. S. Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: environment; environmental analysis; acoustic climate, perception; surveying
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

According to WHO guidelines, environmental noise is one of the most significant health, social and economic threats. Noise adversely affects people's proper functioning and contributes to lowering the attractiveness of the area's location. Shaping a sustainable human living space requires integrated actions to reduce the acoustic nuisance appearing in multi-functional areas. 

The Applied Sciences special issue aims to provide a forum for discussing the current impact of environmental noise on the shaping and management of urban and suburban areas and human well-being (with particular emphasis on the pandemic effects), learning and economic impacts of noise exposure and an overview of possible solutions to prevent this type of pollution. Innovative conceptual and empirical approaches will be methodologically accepted.

Interest's topics: 

  • Environmental noise research evolution;
  • Sustainable shaping of the acoustic environment in urban and suburban areas; 
  • The soundscape shaping with the legislation; 
  • Acoustic solutions preventing exposure to excessive noise; 
  • Environmental noise and the area attractiveness;
  • Environmental noise and sustainable urban transport; 
  • Social and economic effects of exposure to excessive noise; 
  • Environmental noise and its post-pandemic impact on human well-being.

Dr. Kinga Szopińska
Dr. Małgorzata Sztubecka
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Environmental noise pollution
  • The area attractiveness
  • Sustainable space shaping
  • Smart cities
  • Sustainable city transport
  • Soundscape
  • Health effects
  • Human well-being

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A Novel Narrowband Active Noise Control System with Online Secondary Path Modeling Based on Factor Decomposition and Application in Open Space
by Yinsheng Li, Zhengqiang Luo, Qing Xu and Wei Zheng
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(2), 926; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020926 - 17 Jan 2022
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Due to the complexity of the coupling between the active noise control (ANC) controller and secondary path estimator, performance analysis of the system becomes particularly difficult. At present, the performance analysis of the system is often based on the fact that the secondary [...] Read more.
Due to the complexity of the coupling between the active noise control (ANC) controller and secondary path estimator, performance analysis of the system becomes particularly difficult. At present, the performance analysis of the system is often based on the fact that the secondary path tends to be stable, and the secondary path fitting error is minimal. However, in the early stage of system operation, or when the secondary path changes suddenly, the secondary path fitting error is significant, which easily causes divergence of the system control. It is still unable to guarantee the step-size bounds of convergence stability. Therefore, factor decomposition was used to analyze the mean weight behavior in this study. This strategy emphasizes the influence of secondary path modeling (SPM) error. The mean square behavior was evaluated using the energy conservation relationship. According to the established theoretical model, the convergence condition of the system was derived and the upper bound of step size suitable for all stages of system operation was obtained. The simulation and experimental results show that the ANC system is quite stable and robust under extreme conditions and has an obvious noise reduction effect in a specific range of open space, which can reach about 20 dB noise reduction. Full article
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Study on Noise Reduction with Paving Different Low Noise Pavement Materials
by Minmin Yuan, Jie Wang, Yanqin Wang and Shegang Shao
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(21), 10273; https://doi.org/10.3390/app112110273 - 02 Nov 2021
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This paper evaluates the amount of noise reduction when using different pavement materials in two adjacent lanes, where the close-proximity (CPX) method is introduced to analyze the tire/road noise before and after pavement maintenance. We consider four types of pavement materials, including ECA-10, [...] Read more.
This paper evaluates the amount of noise reduction when using different pavement materials in two adjacent lanes, where the close-proximity (CPX) method is introduced to analyze the tire/road noise before and after pavement maintenance. We consider four types of pavement materials, including ECA-10, PUC-10, PAC-13, and double-layer porous asphalt pavement (PAC-13+PUC-10), where these materials and their combinations are paved on two adjacent lanes. We measure the tire/road noise with the CPX method using a two-wheel trailer that can install two types of tires in different tests. This study provides some guidelines on controlling traffic noise pollution by using the combination of low noise pavement materials. From the experimental and theoretical results, one can see that the highest amount of noise reduction can be obtained when both the inner and outer lanes use the double-layer porous asphalt pavement. To make a balance between the noise reduction performance and the road maintenance cost, one can have the suboptimal choice, where the inner lane uses PUC-10 and the outer lane uses the double-layer porous asphalt pavement. Full article
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