Noise and Emissions

Aircraft, helicopters, ground vehicles, and munitions used in military training and testing operations emit regulated air pollutants and produce noise. SERDP and ESTCP projects are working to improve understanding of these impacts, develop novel methods to measure and predict their occurrences, and assess and minimize impacts.

Completed Projects List
Project Title Completed

Demonstration of Diesel Engine Air Emissions Reduction Technologies

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200404
Principal Investigator: Mr. Bruce Holden, NAVFAC Engineering Service Center
ESTCP Dec 2008

Continuous Emissions Monitor for Hazardous Air Pollutant Metals

Project Information
Project ID: WP-199807
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Seltzer, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Div.
ESTCP Mar 2001

Assessing and Controlling Blast Noise Emission

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200006
Principal Investigator: Dr. Larry Pater, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
ESTCP Dec 2007

Field Validation of Real-Time Airborne Lead Analyzer

Project Information
Project ID: WP-199905
Principal Investigator: Ms. Leslie Karr, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
ESTCP Jan 2002

Reduction of Diesel Engine Particulate Emissions Using a Self-Regenerating Soot Filter

Project Information
Project ID: WP-199906
Principal Investigator: Mr. Bruce Holden, NAVFAC Engineering Service Center
ESTCP Oct 2003

An Alternative to EPA Method 9 - Field Validation of a Digital Recording and Analysis System for Opacity Compliance Measurements

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200119
Principal Investigator: Mr. Steve Rasmussen, Hill Air Force Base
ESTCP Feb 2005

Reduction of Particulate Emissions from Turbine Engines Using the +100 Additive

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200121
Principal Investigator: Mr. Edwin Corporan, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
ESTCP Oct 2006

Demonstration of Low Emissions Trapped Vortex Combustor Technology

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200123
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ken Barlow, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
ESTCP Aug 2010

Validation of the Aerosol Beam-Focused Laser-Induced Plasma Spectrometer (ABF-LIPS) for Metal Emission Characterization

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200213
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nancy Ruiz, Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center
ESTCP Jun 2012

In Situ Characterization of Point-of-Discharge Fine Particulate Emissions

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200420
Principal Investigator: Mr. Howard Beardsley, AEC/(Booz Allen Hamilton)
ESTCP May 2009

Effect of Biodiesel on Diesel Engine Nitrogen Oxide and Other Regulated Emissions

Project Information
Project ID: WP-200308
Principal Investigator: Mr. Bruce Holden, NAVFAC Engineering Service Center
ESTCP Jun 2006

Characterization of Open Burning/Open Detonation Emissions

Project Information
Project ID: WP-247
SERDP Oct 1997

Measuring and Modeling for OB/OD Permitting

Project Information
Project ID: WP-251
SERDP Oct 1997

A Field Program to Identify TRI Chemicals and Determine Emission Factors From DoD Munitions Activities

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1197
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kenneth Cowen, Battelle Memorial Institute
SERDP Jan 2006

Feasibility of New Technology to Comprehensively Characterize Air Emissions

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1672
Principal Investigator: Dr. Byung Kim, U.S. Army ERDC-CERL
SERDP Sep 2010

Controlling, Assessing, Managing, and Monitoring the Noise Impact from Weapons, Helicopters, and Aircraft on Training and Readiness

Project Information
Project ID: WP-523
SERDP Mar 1998

Advanced Acoustic Models for Military Aircraft Noise Propagation and Impact Assessment

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1304
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kenneth Plotkin, Wyle Laboratories, Inc.
SERDP Sep 2006

Measurements and Modeling of Diesel Exhaust Emissions from Engines Used by the U.S. Military

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1336
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Watson, Desert Research Institute
SERDP Oct 2008

Airborne Weapons Noise Prediction Model

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1397
Principal Investigator: Mr. Christopher Hobbs, Wyle Laboratories
SERDP Nov 2008

Tailpipe Emissions Estimation for DoD Off-Road Sources

Project Information
Project ID: WP-1338
Principal Investigator: Mr. Michael Kemme, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Mar 2006

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DoD Instruction (DoDI) 4715.13:
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