Development of high performance intake silencer using swirling flow for household oxygen generators

가정용 산소발생기를 위한 스월링 유동을 이용한 고성능 흡기 소음기 개발

Intake silencers of high performance and with less pressure drop are developed for a household oxygen generator. First, the acoustic power of the target oxygen generator are experimentally evaluated according to ISO code. Then, the transmission loss of and the flow characteristics inside the existing intake silencer are predicted and analyzed. On a basis of these results, two intake silencers are proposed, which are designed to induce the swirling flow inside the intake silencer and thus to reduce the flow loss. The predicted TL and the pressure drop for these two new silencers are compared to the existing one, which shows that the proposed ones have higher TLs as well as less pressure drop. The reason for these improvements are explained by investigating the flow characteristics of the new silencers in detail.