UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR

MALAYSIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL & BIOENGINEERING

TECHNOLOGY
LABORATORY REPORT
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To: MDM NIK IDA MARDIANA BINTI NIK PA Code Subject: CEB 31103

From: Student ID. No.:

NORATIQAH BINTI MAHPORD 55217115012

Group No.: L01-P1 Date of Experiment: 12/2/2018

Title of Experiment: EXPERIMENT 1: NOISE SURVEY MONITORING

Received by: Date of Submission: 19/02/2018

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1.0 INTRODUCTION & OBJECTIVES (1

PAGE ONLY)

1. State the background to the experiment 3 6 9 12 15

conducted.
2. State the objectives of the experiment

2.0 PROCEDURE (1 PAGE ONLY)

1. Summarize step by step used in performing 3 6 9 12 15
this experiment.

3.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

(MINIMUM 2 PAGES)

1. Data are presented as deemed suitable with

complete label and units in tables and/or
graphs. 8 16 24 32 40
2. Explanations of the referred tables and/or
graphs are presented after it.

3. Discuss on the findings and relations to the

theory and objective of experiment.

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4.0CONCLUSIONS (1 PAGE ONLY)

1. Summary of the results to relate the findings 3 6 9 12 15

or results with the theory applicable to the
experiment.

5.0 REFERENCES 1 2 3 4 5

6.0 FORMAT & LANGUAGE 2 4 6 8 10

TOTAL

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

TABLE OF CONTENT..................................................................................................... 3
1.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 4
1.2 OBJECTIVES ........................................................................................................ 6
1.3 METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................. 7
1.4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .............................................................................. 8
1.5 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................... 10
1.6 REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 11

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1.1 INTRODUCTION

Noise is an unwanted sound which produced by many sources such as vehicles,

loudspeakers, industries and others. If these noise are not prevent, it will become a noise
pollution which are extremely harmful for the environment. Noise pollution or noise
disturbance is the excessive noise that may harm the activity or balance of human or
animal life (Pal & Bhattacharya., 2012). In addition, noise pollution takes place when there
is either excessive amount of noise or an unpleasant sound that causes temporary
disruption in the natural balance. Thus, to prevent the noise pollution, a noise survey must
take control because noise survey is the noise measurements throughout an entire plant
or section to identify the noise areas whether it meet the noise pollution or not. Basically,
noise survey monitoring is conducted in areas where the noise exposure is likely to be
hazardous (Ventura et al., 2017). This method usually done by a common instruments
such as sound level meter (SLM), integrating sound level meter (ISLM) and noise
dosimeter.

In this experiment, the noise survey monitoring will used sound level meter (SLM).
The SLM consist of a microphone, electronic circuits and a readout display, as shown in
Figure 1.1. The microphone will detects the small air pressure variations associated with
sound and changes them into electrical signals. Then, these signal will processes by the
electronic circuitry of the instrument. The readout displays the sound level in decibels
(db). In addition, the SLM takes the sound pressure level at one instant in a particular
location. The important part is to take the measurement, the SLM is held at arm’s length
at the ear height for those exposed to the noise, as shown in Figure 1.2 (Jhanwar., 2016).

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 Figure 1.1: The sound level meter (SLM)

Figure 1.2: The SLM need to place at arm’s length at the ear height.

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1.2 OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this experiment is to gain an understanding of how the sound

pressure level generated by a noisy machine varies as one move away from it. Next, the
objectives of this experiment is to behave as an ideal spherical source, a source should
be compact, in a free field and ground.

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1.3 METHODOLOGY

The two different

noise sources
around the lab The noise instrument
were selected. which is sound level
meter (SLM) was set
up according to the
manual.

The SLM was placed at

different range of distance
The Sound Pressure and the Sound Pressure
Level (SPL) was Level of all distance was
recorded and a graph measured for every 5 min.
of SPL against
distance was plotted.

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1.4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this experiment, sound level meter was used as the instrument for the noise
survey monitoring. Two noise sources were choose which are noise from compressor and
noise from PM10 machine. Based on both noise sources, the noise was monitored by
using sound level meter (SLM) and the data measured by the SLM were recorded as
shown in Table 1.1. Hence, based on the data obtained, the noise average for both
sources were calculated.

Table 1.1: The data obtained from sound level meter for different noise sources.

Noise Source Distance Noise Average (dB)

1m 4m 1m 4m
Compressor 1. 84.0 1. 78.2
2. 83.7 2. 77.9 83.73 77.83
3. 83.5 3. 77.4
PM10 machine 1. 81.8 1. 74.0
2. 82.5 2. 73.2 82.17 73.77
3. 82.2 3. 74.1

The data obtained was the sound pressure level (SPL) which measured in decibel
(dB). This experiment was performed to study which sources produced the highest SPL
with continuous noise exposure. Based on the theory, the nearest the distance from the
sources, the highest the SPL measured. Therefore, this theory can be applied to this
experiment which 1m is the nearest distance and it produced highest SPL compared to
4m distance from the sources. In addition, a graph of SPL against distance for both
sources were plotted as shown in Figure 1.3.

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84

Sound Pressure Level (SPL)

82
80
78
76 Compressor

74 PM10 machine

72
70
68
1m 4m
Distance

Figure 1.3: A graph of SPL against distance for compressor and PM10 machine.

Based on the graph plotted, compressor gives the highest amount of SPL
measured compared to PM10 machine. This is because of the compressor produced the
loudest noise and this noise might be hazard for those who exposed more than 9 hours
work shift which stated by the OSHA. Besides, the graph clearly shows that the nearest
distance from the source has the highest SPL measured. This can be concluded that, the
better distance for a person or worker to work with these sources are at the longest
distance from the sources. Other than that, the SPL measured for both sources are not
exceed the noise exposure stated by OSHA which the noise exposure level is exceed 85
dB because the highest SPL measured was 83.73 dB. But, the number is quite bigger so
the suitable hearing protection are needed such as ear plugs, muffs and others. Based
on OSHA, a hearing protection is required when noise exposure exceeds the action level
of 85 dB.

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1.5 CONCLUSION

This experiment used sound level meter (SLM) for the noise survey monitoring and
the noise sources choose were noise from compressor and noise from PM10 machine.
The result shows that the nearest the distance from the sources, the highest the SPL
measured which 1m is the nearest distance and it produced highest SPL which is 83.73
dB from compressor and 82.17 dB from PM10 machine compared to 4m distance from
the sources. The compressor gives the highest amount of SPL measured compared to
PM10 machine because the compressor produced the loudest noise and it might be
hazard for those who exposed more than 9 hours work shift which stated by the OSHA.
Lastly, the SPL measured for both sources are not exceed the action level stated by
OSHA which not exceed than 85 dB. But, the suitable hearing protection are needed such
as ear plugs, muffs and others.

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1.6 REFERENCES

Jhanwar., D. (2016). Noise pollution: A review. Journal of Environment Pollution and

Human Health. 4(3): 72 – 77.

Pal., D. & Bhattacharya., D. (2011). Effect of road traffic noise pollution on human work
efficiency in government office, provate organizations and commercial business
centres in Agartala City using fuzze expert system.

Singh., N. & Davar., A. C. (2004). Noise pollution-sources, effect and control. Journal of
Human Ecology. 16(3): 181 – 187.

Thattai., D., Sudarsan., J. S., Sathyanathan., R & Ramasamy., V. (2014). IOP Conference
Series: Earth and Environmental Science.

Ventura., R., Mallet., V., Issarny., V., Racerdy., P. G., & Rebhi., F. (2017). Evaluation and
calibration of mobile phones for noise monitoring application. The Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America. 142(5): 112 – 119.

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