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Measurement and Discrimination Method for the Evaluation of Aero-Pulsation Noise Generated by the Turbocharger System  

Kim, Jae-Heon (현대자동차(주) 연구개발총괄본부 파워트레인센터)
Lee, Jong-Kyu (현대자동차(주) 연구개발총괄본부 파워트레인센터)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.26, no.7, 2007 , pp. 361-365 More about this Journal
Abstract
Aero-pulsation noise, generally caused by geometric asymmetry of a rotating device, is one of considerable sources of annoyance in passenger cars using the turbocharged diesel engine. Main source of this noise is the compressor wheel in the turbocharger system, and can be reduced by after-treatment devices such as silencers, but which may increase the manufacturing cost. More effective solution is to improve the geometric symmetry over all, or to control the quality of components by sorting out inferior ones. The latter is more simple and reasonable than the former in view of manufacturing. Thus, an appropriate discrimination method should be needed to evaluate aero-pulsation noise level at the production line. In this paper, we introduce the accurate method which can measure the noise level of aero-pulsation and also present its evaluation criteria. Besides verifying the reliability of a measurement system - a rig test system-, we analyze the correlation between the results from rig tests and those from vehicle tests. The gage R&R method is carried out to check the repeatability of measurements over 25 samples. From the result, we propose the standard specification which can discriminate inferior products from superior ones on the basis of aero-pulsation noise level.
Keywords
Aero-pulsation noise; Evaluation criteria; Turbocharger; Geometric asymmetric; Gage R&R;
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