Corey Kinart MBA, INCE, PEng President
Corey Kinart is President of HGC Noise Vibration Acoustics. He specializes in measuring, assessing and controlling noise and vibration emissions from large scale industrial sites. For more than a decade, he has headed our group that looks after petrochemical facilities, oil and gas refineries, gas transmission and storage facilities, and cement plants. He has conducted feasibility studies, noise assessments and acoustic audits for regulatory approvals, as well as noise complaint investigations, for hundreds of facilities across North America and abroad. In addition, Petrochemical, oil and gas projects of note include comprehensive assessments of extensive petrochemical facilities near Sarnia, Ontario, Canada and numerous Union Gas and Enbridge Gas Inc. facilities throughout Ontario, Canada, the Staatsolie oil refinery in Suriname and an onshore gas receiving and metering facility in Trinidad & Tobago. In the sector of aggregates and cement, his projects include the Lafarge Bath Cement Plant and Dundas Quarry, and the St. Mary’s cement plants in St. Marys and Bowmanville.
- Areas of Acoustical Expertise
- Professional Accreditations & Committees
- Select Publications & Presentations
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA)
Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA)
National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC)
“Noise Attenuation of Natural Gas Compressors Using Acoustic Array Technology”, presented at the 2017 Symposium of the Industrial Application of Gas Turbines Committee, Banff, Alberta, October 2017
“Advances in Acoustic Monitoring”, presented at the Canadian Acoustical Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, September, 2016, published in Canadian Acoustics, Vol. 44, No. 3, September, 2016.
“Environmental Noise”, presented at the 21st Symposium of the Industrial Application of Gas Turbines Committee in Banff, Alberta, October, 2015.
“Keeping the Noise Down”, published in International Cement Review, September, 2015.
“Environmental Essentials – Ministry Releases New Noise Guideline NPC-300”, published in Asphaltopics, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring, 2014.
“Environment Corner – Noise”, published in Asphaltopics, Vol. 26, No. 2 & 3, Summer & Fall, 2013.
“Combined/Joint Assessments of Embedded or Adjacent Facilities”, presented at the Air & Waste Management Association conference in Toronto, Ontario, May, 2012.
“Case Study: Development of a High Performance Acoustical Pipe Lagging System”, presented at the Canadian Acoustical Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, September, 2008.
“Canadian Forces Experience with Turbofan HCF – Case Study”, Presented at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research & Technology Organization Conference, Granada, Spain, October, 2005