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http://dx.doi.org/10.5050/KSNVE.2016.26.1.020

Noise Characteristics of Air Cleaners and Humidifiers  

Kim, Yong Hee (Korea Conformity LaboratoriesKorea Conformity Laboratories)
Park, Ji Hoon (Korea Conformity Laboratories)
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Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering / v.26, no.1, 2016 , pp. 20-26 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated noise characteristics of air cleaners and humidifiers in terms of frequency domains and measurement directions. Noise levels of 31 air cleaners and 36 humidifiers were measured in an anechoic chamber according to the related group standards. As for air cleaners, 5 receiving points of 1 m off from front, rear, left, right and top surfaces of the product were considered. In case of humidifiers, 4 receiving points without the rear position were considered in the same manner as air cleaners. In each case, A-weighted equivalent continuous sound level was measured three times for 1 min. As a results, most of the measured air cleaners and humidifiers showed the highest noise levels at top directions due to the air ventilating location. In case of air cleaners, averaged noise levels of top and rear positions were 49.9 and 48.2 dB(A), respectively, whereas averaged noise level of other positions was all 45.2 dB(A). In case of humidifiers, averaged noise level of top position was 44.1 dB(A) whereas averaged noise levels of other positions were 38.7 to 39.1 dB(A). In addition, high frequency content of 1 kHz and 3.15 kHz to 4 kHz for air cleaners and middle frequency content of 500 Hz to 1.6 kHz for humidifiers showed significant contribution to determination of overall noise levels with correlation coefficient of 0.9 and above.
Keywords
Noise; Air Cleaner; Humidifier;
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