TITLE: Analysis of noise levels in the city of Ibague on Av.

Ambala with 37th Street and 5th

Avenue with 13th Street.

Summary

In this work to carry out the practice of the use of instruments that serve to know the noise levels that
will be in the account of the city of Ibague, where Av. Ambala with 37th Street and 5th Avenue with
37th Street will be chosen Thus, with the results obtained, the places that process the most noise
pollution and the possible health effects of the Ibaguereña population will be identified. With this
data, students can propose possible solutions and strategies to improve this contamination. It is also
vitally important that as a future environmental engineer you know and are in the ability to manage
and acquire knowledge about how programs for noise measurement will be used.

Keywords: Contamination, sound, meter, sound lever, Air

 INTRODUCTION

Noise pollution is proliferated worldwide, especially in large cities where there are many vehicles
and industries that cause this problem that is affecting the quality of life of populations. In this way,
it is important to analyze through instruments with high technology that allow to know the noise
levels to which affected citizens are affected.

With the development of projects proposed by universities, where the main objective is the study of
areas that are affected by noise pollution, it is possible to know the noise level and compare it with
levels allowed by the regulations

In this work to carry out the practice of the use of instruments that serve to know the noise levels that
will be in the account of the city of Ibague, where Av. Ambala with 37th Street and 5th Avenue with
37th Street will be chosen Thus, with the results obtained, the places that process the most noise
pollution and the possible health effects of the Ibaguereña population will be identified. With this
data, students can propose possible solutions and strategies to improve this contamination. It is also
vitally important that as a future environmental engineer you know and are in the ability to manage
and acquire knowledge about how programs for noise measurement will be used.
METHODS (Demographic data, climate, land use)

Demography

The evolution of the population of the city of Ibague between 2008 and 2017, according to
calculations of the Administrative Department National Statistics (DANE). At designated period, the
city went from a population of 515,424 to a population of 564,076, a growth of 48, and 65 population.
It is clear that the population has increased between the mentioned periods and as seen in the graph
2, the growth dynamics population is losing strength.

Weather

In Ibague, summers are short and hot; the winters are short, comfortable, wet and wet and it is cloudy
throughout the year. During the course of the year, the temperature generally varies from 17 ° C to
28 ° C and rarely falls below 16 ° C or rises above 31 ° C.

Based on the tourism score, the best time of the year to visit Ibague for hot weather activities is from
the beginning of June to the beginning of September.
RESULTS (SOUND MAPS MEASUREMENTS DURING ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION OF
THE SOURCE AND RECEIVERS)

Image 1: Av Ambala (kra. 14) with 37th street Image 2: Av Quinta (kra. 5a) with
37th Street

INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASUREMENT

Parameters

• The sound sources taken into account are the Automotive that travel through the artery roads of
the city of Ibague.

• 2 main arteries

• Measurement is performed with the green light

• 5 Time measurements, elapsed every 20 seconds.

g. Results obtained
PROGRAMA SOUND METER

CORDENADAS LA eq dB (A)
APLICACI
LOCALIZA ÓN No. De
ME M MI
CION Lat Long empleada Medici
DIA AX N
para la on
medicion
-
4.446. 75.214.42
353 5 soun meter 1 80 85 74
-
4.446. 75.214.42
353 5 soun level 2 67.9 74 63.5
Av -
Ambalala 4.446. 75.214.42 analayzer
con Calle 37 353 5 lite(SLA) 3 77 82 65
-
4.446. 75.214.42 90.
353 5 Nioah slm 4 74.8 1 81.1
-
4.446. 75.214.42 87.
353 5 Nioah slm 5 82.6 8 80.8
-
4.438. 75.217.36
214 5 soun meter 6 82 86 44
-
4.438. 75.217.36
214 5 7 81 83 78
-
4.438. 75.217.36
214 5 8 83 87 73
-
4.438. 75.217.36 soun meter
Av 5a con 214 5 9 83 87 77
calle 37 -
4.438. 75.217.36
214 5 10 79 85 64
-
4.438. 75.217.36
214 5 11 82 86 78
-
4.438. 75.217.36 86.
214 5 analayzer 7´ 79.8 2 72.2
- lite(SLA)
4.438. 75.217.36 95.
214 5 8´ 84.3 6 68.9
 -
4.438. 75.217.36 91.
214 5 9´ 81.3 0 70.6
-
4.438. 75.217.36 83.
214 5 10´ 75.7 9 68.8
-
4.438. 75.217.36 91.
214 5 11´ 79.2 3 66.5
IMPACT ON THE RECEIVER AND THE SOURCES

The Ibaguereños acquire a level of auditory and air pollution acquired by the movement of the
movements and the gases and particles given by the fuels of the cars. This problem has been tried to
solve with the day of no car but this is insufficient since it is only scheduled sporadically and measures
that end the problem are not executed.

Globally, environmental pollution in large cities includes gases of various compositions and
particulate matter, product of industrial activities, automotive traffic, burning of materials, etc., which
are transported by the wind until they are deposited on any surface or be inhaled (Guthrie, 1995). The
size distribution of these particles is very diverse, in the range between 5 nm (smaller than a red blood
cell) and 100 µm (human hair thickness) (Donaldson and MacNee, 1998). However, volumetrically
in cities, most of the particulate material has sizes between 2 and 10 µm (Harrison and Yin, 2000)
(Fig. 3). Some studies carried out in industrialized cities have shown that the particulate material
contains considerable concentrations of elements such as C, S, V, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe, Cu, Cr and in smaller
proportions of Cd, Sn, Ce, Mo, W, Zr, Ca, As, Sb, Mn, Hg, Bi, Ti, Sr, Se and some rare earth elements
(Eu, La, Y and Tb) (Castañeda, et al., 2014, 2016; Chaparro et al. , 2013; Marié et al., 2016; Gargiulo
et al., 2016; Gargiulo and Chaparro, 2016; Brighigna et al., 1997).
Conclusions

Av Ambala (kra. 14) with 37th Street, The measurement area is mostly located in a residential
Activity area; with secondary residential use, the Trade and services Activity zone is also presented,
with the use of Special Commerce as well as the Institutional

Fifth Av (kra. 5a) with 37th Street, This measurement point is located in an area of Commerce and
services activity; with mixed uses as business and industrial service and use of special commerce. In
the same way, the institutional activity zone and residential activity zone with uses of collective
equipment, primary and secondary residential use in succession are very close
THANKS

To the teachers who organized the laboratory and the students who allowed to carry out the activity
and participated effectively. To UNAD University for teaching and instructing and providing the
tools to perform the laboratory exercise.
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