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This paper addresses the implementation of cutting-edge engineering techniques to reduce the exposure to occupational noise in drivers of mining dump trucks. For this, a project has been carried out in Cerrejón, which is one of the biggest open coal mines in the world. The target goal is oriented to reduce the noise values under the TLVs according to the exposure time. Although, a guideline methodology for noise control design is established by the international standard ISO 11690, the complexity of the problem yields to the development of state of the art signal processing algorithms and the implementation of knowledge frontier measurement/simulation techniques. The results indicate that the proposed approach allows to tackle noise problems of high complexity leading to a practical solution that benefits the exposed population as noise levels are lowered below threshold limit values .
Supported by Positiva Compañía de Seguros S.A.
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Authors would like to thank to Positiva Compañía de Seguros S.A. for the support and technical assistance given to carried out this project, in particular, to Andrés Leonardo Tovar Rivera and Jawin Eduardo Gómez Freyle. Special regards to Marco Atencio from Cerrejón for his unwavering commitment and help.
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Murillo Gómez, D.M., González León, E., Piedrahíta, H., Yate, J., Gómez Cristancho, C.E. (2021). Advanced Engineering Control Strategies Applied to Occupational Noise Management in Mining Dump Trucks. In: Figueroa-García, J.C., Díaz-Gutierrez, Y., Gaona-García, E.E., Orjuela-Cañón, A.D. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1431. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86702-7_43
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