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Project Title: Finite Element Analysis of an Industrial Reactive Silencer

Ben Cazzolato, Carl Howard

Classical analytical models used for prediction of the performance of reactive silencers are limited to conditions where the dimensions of the duct and resonators are small compared to the wavelength of the sound. Finite Element Analysis does not suffer from such limitations and has therefore been used to analyse the design of a reactive silencer for the exhaust stack of a 980MW power station. To assist in the design process, resonators of various dimensions were analysed using FEA which has led to the derivation of expressions for the resonance frequencies of slot-type rhomboid shaped resonators as a function of the geometry. An important design issue is the in uence that adjacent resonators have on the overall performance of the system. It was found that when resonators of similar resonance frequency are in close proximity, they can interact and lead to a decrease in the overall performance compared to that of a single resonator.

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Installation of a reactive silencer
Acoustics Vibration and Control Research Group
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
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