scholarly journals Flow and Noise Characteristics of Centrifugal Fan in Low Pressure Environment

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xilong Zhang ◽  
Yongliang Zhang ◽  
Chenggang Lu

The influence of low-pressure environment on centrifugal fan’s flow and noise characteristics was studied experimentally and numerically. A testbed was established to conduct the experimental test on the performance of a centrifugal fan, and the characteristic curve and power consumption curve of the fan under different pressure were obtained. Then the simulation model of the centrifugal fan was established, which was used to simulate the working process of centrifugal fan under different negative pressures. The results showed that the total pressure and static pressure of the fan decrease with the decrease of the ambient pressure. The total and static pressures of the fan under 60 kPa pressure condition decreased by 42.3% and 38.3%, respectively, compared with those of fan under the normal pressure. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the decrease of the environmental pressure leads to the decrease of air density. Besides, with the drop of environmental pressure, the sound pressure and sound power of the fan noise decreases.

Author(s):  
Xuhong Jia ◽  
Xiaoguang Yang ◽  
Song Huang ◽  
Maoyong Zhi ◽  
Xinhua Zhu

The flame-retardant materials in the cabin of civil aircraft is possible to induce fire accident, which can cause certain threat to the operation safety of aircraft. The cabin pressure of civil aircraft is generally maintained at 75~84 kPa under normal transport condition, and the combustion behavior of aviation carpet will change under this pressure. Combustion properties of an aviation carpet, selected from civil aircraft, were studied at Guanghan City (520 m altitude) and Kangding airport (4290 m altitude), Sichuan province of China in this work, respectively. The results showed that the smoke density of the aviation carpets increased sharply and the decreasing rate of the oxygen volume fraction became more quickly under low pressure. Furthermore, the rising rate of carbon dioxide volume fraction also became rapidly with the decrease of the ambient pressure. The content of the carbon monoxide under low pressure was lower than that under normal pressure at the beginning of the combustion. However, the carbon monoxide production increased sharply when the combustion lasted for 4 minutes. In addition, the ignition time of the aviation carpet was shorter under low pressure.


Author(s):  
Shuiqing Zhou ◽  
Yuebing Li

The multi-blade centrifugal fan features an abundance of vanes (>48) and a spiral volute. The flowability and noise characteristics of the centrifugal fan are dependent on the type-line of volute and tongue geometries at the volute exit. The aim of this research was to find a better volute type-line for fan noise reduction without compromising on the performance. First, the viscosity factors of gas were used to modify the type-line shape of the volute by introducing a dynamic moment correction coefficient; a modified volute was then obtained to match the new fan system. Next, the performance of the original fan and retrofit fan were tested. The optimization scheme was verified and the feasibility of the proposed numerical calculation technique was confirmed.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Morinushi

In this report, through experiments the influence of five major geometric parameters on noise and aerodynamic performance of forward curved (F.C.) centrifugal fans was studied. The parameters considered are: (1) width-inner diameter ratio of impeller, (2) axial clearance between the fan inlet nozzle and the impeller shroud plate, (3) blade-setting angle, (4) blade pitch-chord ratio, and (5) spiral extension index of the scroll. Noise characteristics were evaluated by means of the specific noise level (A-weighted) at every operating point except the surging region. The optimal values for the parameters to realize low noise are discussed. Design diagrams for low noise F.C. centrifugal fans are shown.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5 Part A) ◽  
pp. 2941-2952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Xie ◽  
Xingqi Qiu ◽  
Yunjing Cui ◽  
Jianxin Wang

The burning state of a plateau environment is attracting more and more attention. In this paper, in order to have a deeper scientific understanding of diesel spray combustion and the characteristics of a flame under different spray cone angles in a plateau environment, experiments were carried out in a low pressure chamber. The flame morphology was recorded by a high speed video instrument, and the temperature change was recorded by a thermal imager and thermocouples. The MATLAB programming was used to process the video image of the flame, and the probability of its binarization was calculated. The results indicate that the flame becomes longer and wider under different pressures with the same spray angle. The variation is more pronounced at a smaller spray taper angle. The flame uplifted height characteristic is mainly negatively related to the atmospheric pressure. According to the normalized flame temperature and the dimensionless horizontal projection, the length can be divided into three regions. In the region of buoyancy flame, the dimensionless temperature varies with sub-atmospheric pressure more than with normal pressure. In addition, under different spray cone angle conditions, the law of variation in the normalized flame temperature under sub-atmospheric pressure is exactly opposite to that under normal pressure. This study is of great significance to the scientific research on flames in a low pressure environment, and the design of different fuel nozzles for application in a plateau environment.


2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 815-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Emme ◽  
Matthias Weil ◽  
Hubert Huppertz

The new orthorhombic polymorph β-HgB4O7 has been synthesized under high-pressure and hightemperature conditions in a Walker-type multianvil apparatus at 7.5 GPa and 600 °C. β-HgB4O7 is isotypic to the known ambient pressure phases MB4O7 (M = Sr, Pb, Eu) and the high-pressure phase β-CaB4O7 crystallizing with two formula units in the space group Pmn21 with lattice parameters a = 1065.6(2), b = 438.10(9), and c = 418.72(8) pm. The relation of the crystal structure of the high-pressure phase β-HgB4O7 to the normal pressure phase α-HgB4O7 as well as the relation to the isotypic phases MB4O7 (M = Sr, Pb, Eu) and β-CaB4O7 are discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (05) ◽  
pp. 723-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. IYAKUTTI ◽  
C. NIRMALA LOUIS ◽  
S. ANURATHA ◽  
S. MAHALAKSHMI

The electronic band structure, density of states, structural phase transition, superconducting transition and Fermi surface cross section of titanium ( Ti ) under normal and high pressures are reported. The high pressure band structure exhibits significant deviations from the normal pressure band structure due to s → d transition. On the basis of band structure and total energy results obtained using tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method (TB LMTO), we predict a phase transformation sequence of α( hcp ) → ω (hexagonal) → γ (distorted hcp) → β (bcc) in titanium under pressure. From our analysis, we predict a δ (distorted bcc) phase which is not stable at any high pressures. At ambient pressure, the superconducting transition occurs at 0.354 K. When the pressure is increased, it is predicted that, Tc increases at a rate of 3.123 K/Mbar in hcp–Ti . On further increase of pressure, Tc begins to decrease at a rate of 1.464 K/Mbar. The highest value of Tc(P) estimated is 5.043 K for hcp–Ti , 4.538 K for ω– Ti and 4.85 K for bcc – Ti . From this, it is inferred that the maximum value of Tc(P) is rather insensitive to the crystal structure of Ti . The nonlinearities in Tc(P) is explained by considering the destruction and creation of new parts of Fermi surface at high pressure. At normal pressure, the hardness of Ti is in the following order: ω- Ti > hcp - Ti > bcc- Ti > γ- Ti .


Author(s):  
Jian-Cheng Cai ◽  
Da-Tong Qi ◽  
Yong-Hai Zhang

Tonal noise constitutes the major part of the overall fan noise, especially the blade passing frequency (BPF) noise which is generally the most dominant component. This paper studies the BPF tonal noise of a centrifugal fan, including the blade noise, casing aerodynamic noise, and casing structural noise caused by the flow-induced casing vibration. Firstly, generation mechanism and propagation process of fan noise were discussed and the measured spectra of fan noise and casing vibration were presented. Secondly, a fully 3-D transient simulation of the internal flow field of the centrifugal fan was carried out by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. The results revealed that the flow interactions between the impeller and the volute casing caused periodic pressure fluctuations on the solid walls of the impeller and casing. This pressure fluctuation induces aerodynamic noise radiation as dipole sources, as well as structural vibration as force excitations. Thirdly, using the acoustic analogy theory, the aeroacoustic dipole sources on the casing and blade surface were extracted. The BPF casing and blade aerodynamic sound radiation were solved by the boundary element method (BEM) taking into account the scattering effect of the casing structure. Finally, the casing structural noise was studied. The casing forced vibration and sound radiation under the excitation of BPF pressure fluctuation were calculated by finite element method (FEM) and BEM, respectively. The result indicates that at the studied flow rate, the sound power levels of the casing aerodynamic noise, blade aerodynamic noise and casing structural noise are 103 dB, 91 dB and 79 dB with the reference sound power of 1×10−12 W, respectively.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Sommerfeldt ◽  
Kent L. Gee

1971 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-440
Author(s):  
A. N. Abdelhamid

Discrete frequency noise characteristics of a research lifting fan is investigated analytically. Based on steady aerodynamic data of the fan, unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on the rotor and stator blades were calculated using the results of previous investigators and an analysis which determines the effect of fluctuating velocity disturbance parallel to blade chord on the unsteady lift of cambered thin airfoils. The calculated unsteady forces were then used to determine the characteristics of discrete frequency noise emission from the fan. For the fan under consideration it is shown that the rotor interaction noise dominates the fan noise. Comparison between the predicted sound pressure levels and experimental observations shows good agreement. Based on the calculated detailed contributions of the different force harmonics acting on the blades to the fan noise, possible means of reducing lifting fan noise are discussed.


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