The air conditioning and refrigeration systems noise consideration is continuously growing, implying more and more compressor noise measurements [1], even in-situ [2][3]. This article will introduce a new validated finite-element method to obtain the compressor noise from vibration measurements from standard test rig or directly in the field. We will describe the methodology; the devices & tool...

Power generation using waste-gas is an effective and green way to reduce the emission of the harmful blast furnace gas (BFG) in pig-iron producing industry. Condition monitoring of mechanical structures in the BFG power plant is of vital importance to guarantee their safety and efficient operations. In this paper, we describe the detection of crack growth of bladed machinery in the BFG power pl...

The sound radiation characteristics of a semi-hermetic twin-screw compressor were studied while operating under controlled laboratory conditions at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories of Purdue University. A fully-condensing load stand was designed to allow the 70 ton chiller system to be operated at the three standard loading capacities of the compressor. The load stand was operator controlled and...

This paper demonstrates a typical process to investigate the vibro-acoustic behavior of R410A rotary compressors. The compressor shell is usually the main noise radiator in a rotary compressor. However, the accumulator shell can be a significant noise source as well, although its size is relatively small. Sound performance of a rotary compressor is affected not only by the dynamic characteristi...

Vibration-based condition monitoring and fault diagnosis is an effective approach to maintain the reliable operation of a scroll compressor. Unfortunately, the vibration signal from the scroll compressor always has characteristics of being non-linear and non-stationary, which makes vibration signal analysis and fault feature extraction very difficult. To extract the significant fault features, ...

This work deals with the effect of a Helmholtz resonator on the acoustic vibration inside the cavity of a domestic refrigerator compressor. A multi-mode analytical model is developed and some analyses are carried out showing the influence of resonator parameters on the acoustic behaviour of the cavity. Then the results of the tests which were performed on an industrial compressor during its act...

The aim of this work is the application of the phase variation in vibration signal for fault detection on rotating machines. The vibration signal from the machine is modulated in amplitude and phase around a carrier frequency. The modulating signal in phase is determined after the Hilbert transform and is used, with the Fast Fourier Transform, to extract the harmonics spectrum in phase. This me...

This paper refers to the noise reduction of the rolling piston type rotary compressor. In general. as the rolling piston increases its speed under the high compression ratio condition. the noise level increases steeply. We resume that this happens because a certain shock wave is produced in the comPression space. Then we could simulate the Phenomenon by the numerical analysis ( CACE method ) of...

Sanyo has originally introduced 6HP two-cylinder rotary compressors for packaged airconditioners in I 985. The concept of two-cylinder rotary compressor has been recently applied to room airconditioners(RACs) for the purpose of reducing vibration and noise of the unit. However. RACs are demanded to decrease the noise by lowering levels of the compressor noise. SanYo has newly developed the quie...

In this paper, the experimental vibration analysis of a single cylinder air compressor based on a hypocycloid straight line mechanism (HSM) is investigated. The HSM mechanism uses planetary gears to convert rotational motion to purely linear motion. In the conventional air compressor, the slider- crank mechanism is replaced by the HSM mechanism with appropriate counterweights. The constructed s...