Foreword
In recent years the shortage of power coupled with unreliable and poor quality of the power supply has resulted in a proliferation of captive generator sets, run with either diesel, petrol or kerosine, as an alternate source ofpower. This is happening, particularly, in urban areas where the need is greater. Unfortunately, in most of these places there is an overlap of commercial, residential and industrial areas which together with poor planning for the installation of generator sets and absence of any acoustic treatment/enclosure, leads to excessive noise pollution. An effort has been made, here, to tackle this problem through prescribing noise standards and developing guidelines for providing acoustic enclosure/treatment for diesel run generator (DG) sets;

The study includes the noise analysis of DG sets covering the power range of 15 -500 KV A (1500 RPM), prescribing noise standards at the manufacturing stage and at the user's end, design of acoustic enclosure and developing guidelines for control of noise pollution from DG sets.