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A Study on the Noise Source Identification of Refrigerator Compressor (냉장고용 압축기 소음원 규명에 관한 연구)

  • O, Jae-Eung;Lee, Chang-Ho;Lee, Myeong-Ryeol;Yeom, Seong-Ha
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.48-57
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    • 1987
  • It is well known that the major noise source of Refrigerator is compressor, and due to the tendency of higher quality and more lighting of manufactured goods, the importance of prevention and reduction of a noise is increasing. In this paper, in order to prevent and reduce such a noise, sound pressure level and acoustic intensity are measured for compressor, and the result of these measurements, the noise radiation characteristics of compressor are reconized. And the experimental modal analysis is applied to the compressor to identify the noise sourcce. As the results of this study, we come to know that the spring, which is used to reduce vibration, does not reduce vibration efficiently, and compressor shell and its mounting system effect the noise radiation.

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A Study on the Optimization of Discharge Grille of Outdoor Unit of Air Conditioner (에어컨 실외기 토출그릴 형상 최적화)

  • Choi, Seok-Ho;Oh, Sai-Kee;Kim, Hyun-Jong;Jin, Geun-Ho;Oh, Si-Young;Kim, Byung-Soon
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.726-732
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    • 2011
  • The aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance of discharge grille of outdoor unit of air-conditioner was investigated in this study. Discharge grille is one of outdoor unit's important parts to affect the flow rate and Overall Sound Pressure Level(OSPL). New type of discharge grille was suggested based on the results of numerical simulation. To simulate the flow pattern near the propeller fan, commercial flow solver FLUENT was used. Sliding mesh method was used for rotating propeller fan and initial condition for unsteady model was calculated by Multiple Reference Frame(MRF) method. To minimize the interaction noise between fan blade wake and discharge grille, new discharge grille has radial rib which is aligned with trailing edge of fan blade. And inclined radial rib was adopted for reducing flow rate drop in discharge grille. The optimization of inclined angle of radial grille was performed experimentally.

Electrical and Structural Design of Air-conditioning Fan Motor for Noise Reduction

  • Han Hyung-Suk;Mo Jin-Yong;Kim Chang-Hyun;Lee Jae-Kwon;Jeong Weui-Bong
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.1653-1661
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    • 2006
  • AC induction motors have been widely used for fan motor of the air conditioner indoor unit. Noise of these AC induction motors is usually caused by the coupling effects of structural and electrical systems. The rotating torque and the noise from AC induction motor were discussed in this paper,. First, the modification of motor was carried out in order to reduce the unbalance magneto motive force between main and sub winding. Second, structural modification based on normal mode analysis and modal testing was carried out so that the fan motor does not have the natural frequencies near the 2f-line frequency. Numerical modifications through these two processes were verified by experiments, which showed that the sound pressure level at 2f-line frequency of the modified system became about 25dB less than that of conventional one.

Simulation Results of Piezoelectric Microspeakers due to Structural Changes (구조변화에 따른 압전형 마이크로스피커의 모의해석)

  • Jeong, Kyong-Shik;Ur, Soon-Chul;Cho, Hee-Chan;Yi, Seung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.327-327
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    • 2007
  • This paper reports the simulation results of piezoelectric microspeakers due to structural changes(diaphragm materials, corrugation width and electrode shapes). When we compared the dependence of diaphragm material properties, the microspeaker with LTO(Low Temperature Oxide) diaphragm shows higher deflection than that of silicon nitride diaphragm, even though the resonant frequencies are almost same in both cases. In case of circular-electrode microspeaker, the deflection of diaphragm is about $16\;{\mu}m$ at 20 V, and it decreases as the corrugation width is decreased. However, the deflection of diaphragm with the square-electrode reveals almost twice times higher value at the same applied voltage than the circular one, and it increases as the corrugation depths are decreased from $30\;{\mu}m\;to\;10\;{\mu}m$. The first resonant frequency of microspeakers present about 1.8 kHz in circular-electrode and 1.2 kHz in square-electrode, respectively.

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Active Noise Control for Target Point Inside Bore Using Property of MRI Noise (MRI 소음의 특성을 이용한 공동 내부 목표점의 능동소음 제어)

  • Lee, Nokhaeng;Park, Youngjin;Park, Youn-Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 2014
  • Recently, MRI(magnetic resonance imager) scanner is continually used for medical diagnosis and many biomedical researches. When it operates, however, intense noise is generated. The SPL(sound pressure level) of the noise approaches 130 dB especially in 3 T(Tesla) MRI. Meanwhile, more than 3 T MRI scanners have been developed to get higher-resolution images, so louder noise is expected in the future. The intense noise makes patients feel nervous and uncomfortable. Moreover, it could possibly cause hearing loss to patient in extreme cases. For this reason, some active noise control systems have been researched. One of them used feedback Filtered-X LMS(FXLMS) algorithm which is able to control only narrowband noises and possible to diverge in severe case. In this paper, we determine the property of MRI noise. Using the property, we applied a method of open-loop and adaptive control for reducing MRI noise at target point inside bore. We verified performance of the method with computer simulation and preliminary experiment. The results demonstrate that the method can effectively reduce MRI noise at target point.

The Study on ODD Acoustic Noise Reduction by Using Micro Muffler (마이크로 머플러를 이용한 ODD소음 저감에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Byeong-Gi;Cha, Sung-Woon;Lee, Byung-Hee
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 2006
  • As high performance and high speed have been accomplished by technology of optical disk drive. optical disk drives have gradually high percentage of the market share in market of storage devices. This technology helps to improve the quality of record/reproduction. However, simultaneously it causes various problems in the structural aspect and increases noise largely. Especially at high speed, dominant noise is more influenced by fluid noise than by structure-borne noise. The purpose of this study is that reduce the air-born noise in optical disk drive as it decreases a quantity of flow by using a micro muffler. The micro muffler is a miniaturized muffler. The muffler is used widely by solution to reduce air-borne noise which is generated by flow. According to frequency band of the noise source, it can be applied by muffler of various forms. In this study, we examined the acoustic characteristics of the micro muffler and applied it to reduction of the ODD noise. It could get an excellent noise reduction in high frequency band through the decrease of an inner flow. But it could not get a noise reduction in low frequency band.

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Analysis of the Relation Between Micro-Speaker with the Back Holes and the Ducted Speaker-System (후면기공을 갖는 마이크로스피커와 덕트형 스피커시스템사이의 연관성 해석)

  • Rhee, Esther;Oh, Sei-Jin
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2007
  • In this study, the property and the structure of micro-speaker had been firstly shown to be treated as a ducted speaker-system, which was consisted of the unit and the ducted enclosure. With the decrease of total hole area. the resonance frequency of micro-speaker was decreased due to increasing the stiffness or reducing the compliance. The behavior of resonance frequency relative to the total hole area was exactly agreed with that of the square root of compliance. With decreasing the total hole area. the effective chamber volume was increased, but the reference sound pressure level was exponentially reduced in the low and middle frequency range.

UNDERWATER DISTRIBUTION OF VESSEL NOISE (선박소음의 수중분포에 관한 연구)

  • PARK Jung Hee
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.227-235
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    • 1977
  • The noise pressure scattered underwater on account of the engine revolution of a pole and liner, Kwan-Ak-San(G. T. 234.96), was measured at the locations of Lat. $34^{\circ}47'N$, Long. $128^{\circ}53'E$ on the 16th of August 1976 and Lat. $34^{\circ}27'N$, Long. $128^{\circ}23'E$ on the 28th of July, 1977. The noise pressure passed through each observation point (Nos. 1 to 5), which was established at every 10m distance at circumference of outside hull was recorded when the vessel was cruising and drifted. In case of drifting, the revolution of engine was fixed at 600 r. p. m. and the noise was recorded at every 10 m distance apart from observation point No. 3 in both horizontal and vertical directions with $90^{\circ}$ toward the stern-bow line. In case of cruising, the engine was kept in a full speed at 700 r.p.m. and the sounds passed through underwater in 1 m depth were also recorded while the vessel moved back and forth. The noise pressure was analyzed with sound level meter (Bruel & Kjar 2205, measuring range 37-140 dB) at the anechoic chamber in the Institute of Marine Science, National Fisheries University of Busan. The frequency and sound waves of the noise were analyzed in the Laboratory of Navigation Instrument. From the results, the noise pressure was closely related to the engine revolution shelving that the noise pressure marked 100 dB when .400 r. p. m. and increase of 100 r. p. m. resulted in 1 dB increase in noise pressure and the maximum appeared at 600 r. p. m. (Fig.5). When the engine revolution was fixed at 700 r. p. m., the noise pressures passed through each observation point (Nos. 1 to 5) placed at circumference of out side hull were 75,78,76,74 and 68 dB, the highest at No.2, in case of keeping under way while 75,76,77,70 and 67 dB, the highest at No.3 in case of drifting respectively (Fig.5). When the vessel plyed 1,400 m distance at 700 r.p.m., the noise pressure were 67 dB at the point 0 m, 64 dB at 600m and 56 dB at 1,400m on forward while 72 at 0 m, 66 at 600 m and 57 dB at 1,400 m on backward respectively indicating the Doppler effects 5 dB at 0 m and 3 dB at 200 m(Fig.6). The noise pressures passed through the points apart 1,10,20,30,40 and 50 m depth underwater from the observation point No.7 (horizontal distance 20 m from the point No.3) were 68,75,62,59,55 and 51 dB respectively as the vessel was being drifted maintaining the engine revolution at 600 r. p. m. (Fig. 8-B) whereas the noise pressures at the observation points Nos.6,7,8,9 and 10 of 10 m depth underwater were 64,75,55,58,58 and 52 dB respectively(Fig.8-A).

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Combustion Experiments of a High Pressure Liquid Propellant Thrust Chamber (액체로켓 엔진용 고압 연소기의 연소시험)

  • Seo, Seong-Hyeon;Han, Yeoung-Min;Moon, Il-Yoon;Lee, Kwang-Jin;Kim, Jong-Kyu;Lim, Byung-Jik;Ahn, Kyu-Bok;Choi, Hwan-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.40-46
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    • 2006
  • A 30-tonf-class fullscale thrust chamber for the application to a Low-Earth-Orbit Space Launch Vehicle has been combustion tested over the wide ranges of a mixture ratio and a chamber pressure. The thrust chamber designed for a pump-fed open cycle engine was tested with an ablative chamber instead of a regenerative one for the initial evaluation of its performance and function. The test results revealed stable combustion characteristics. The hardware survived the harsh environment and showed very sound functional characteristics. The measured combustion efficiency turned out to be 95% and a specific impulse at sea level was estimated as 254sec, which are comparable to or above the predetermined design values.

Application of Airfoil Impeller for Enhancement of Aerodynamic Performance of High Speed Centrifugal Fan (고속 원심홴의 공력성능 향상을 위한 에어포일 임펠러 적용)

  • Park, Kyung Hyun;Park, Chang Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents the application of airfoil impeller for enhancement of aerodynamic performance of a high speed centrifugal fan. Three airfoil impellers are proposed, considering the maximum thickness and the location of maximum thickness of the airfoil. C4 airfoil thickness distribution is applied to the three airfoil impellers. The impellers are evaluated using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and suction power test. From the results, it is confirmed that flow separations on the pressure side of the impeller blades and the pressure side of diffuser blades are reduced when airfoil blade is applied to the impellers. It is also confirmed that with the centrifugal fan having airfoil impellers, there is an increase in fan efficiency by approximately 3% and reduction in specific sound level by approximately 1.3 dB(A).