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Representative Publications
Hessler, G. F., Jr. & Hessler, D.M.

"On-Site Acoustic Privacy Investigation and Corrective Design for a Large Training Center," Noise Control Engineering Journal (Sept/Oct 1985)

"Noise Control Economics of Siting Gas Turbine Power Plants," Gas Turbine International (May/June 1977)

Co-Author ,"Gas Turbine Installation Sound Emissions", American National Standard, ANSI B133.8 - 1977 The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, N.Y.

"Non-Acoustic Design Parameters for Industrial Mufflers" Proceedings of Noise-Con 81 - Applied Noise Control Technology , Presented at the Center for Acoustical Studies, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina (8-10 June 1981)

"Gas Turbine Silencing - Then and Now", Presented at the International Electric Power Industry, Noise Abatement Engineering Workshop sponsored by BBN Laboratories and the Edison Electric Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (July 18-19, 1986).

"Applications and Experience with a Portable Micro-Computer System Controller and Programmable Sound Level Meter/Frequency Analyzer" Presented at the 107th Meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, Virginia, 6-10 May, 1984

"Predicting Sound Pressure Levels in the Near and Far Field from Radiating Partitions", Invited Paper, Presented at the November, 1992 Acoustical Society of America Conference, New Orleans, LA

Co-Author, "The Reduction of Low Frequency Combustion Turbine Exhaust Noise - A Case Study", presented at the ASME Turbo Expo '96 in Birmingham, England, June, 1996

"The Control and Optimization of Enviroment Noise Emissions from Combustion Turbine Plants" Proceedings of the ASME International Joint Power Conference in Huston, TX October 14-16, 1996, pages 512-528

"HRSG Noise Issues", Invited Paper, Presented at a special session on "Power Plant Noise Issues" at the Joint ASA / INCE NOISE-CON 97, Penn State University, June, 1997

"Controlling noise impact in the community from power plant operations - recommendations for ambient measurements," Noise Control Engr J. Vol. 48, No. 5 (Sep-Oct 2000)

"Strategy for Writing Procument Specifications", Presented at Noise-Con 2000, Newport Beach, CA, 2000, December 03-05, 2000

"Beware Low Frequency Gas Turbine Noise", Power Magazine, July/August 2001

"Proposed Criteria for Low Frequency Noise from Combustion Turbine Power Plants", Presented at and published in the Proceedings of NOISE-CON 2004, Baltimore, MD, 2004 July 12-14

"Proposed criteria in residential communities for low frequency emissions from industrial resources", Noise Control Engineering Journal, Volume 52, Number 4, 2004 July-August

"Baseline Environmental Sound Levels for Wind Turbine Projects", Soud and Vibration Magazine, Nov 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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