Vibration Measurements for Active Noise Control in a HVAC System with a Passive Absorber

Abstract:

A hybrid active-passive noise control system for a HVAC duct combines both a physicalnoise absorber and an active system. Due to the presence of the passive component, requirements forthe active system can be relaxed, removing the need for detecting and suppressing noise in the frequencyrange already covered by the passive elements. A typical noise measurement system adaptedto working in airflow usually uses a microphone with a housing designed to reduce the noise generateddue to local turbulent flow introduced by the housing itself. Alternatively, there are microphonesspecifically designed to work in the airflow.During work on the hybrid active-passive noise control system both a microphone designed forairflow and a microphone with special housing were tested. While these solutions can be used forresearch, both have issues making them impractical when designing a commercial product. This, alongwith the required narrow frequency range motivated the authors to consider vibration measurementsperformed by appropriately installed accelerometers. An audio signal is then synthesized using thosemeasurements and it is confronted with signals obtained at the same time with microphones.In the paper the proposed method is presented and validated with a laboratory HVAC installation ofa large cross-section and an originally designed passive absorber. Obtained results encourage further research.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 248)
• Pages: 49-56
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.248.49
• Online since: March 2016
• Authors: Karol Szumski*, Marek Pawelczyk
• Keywords: Acoustic Duct, Active Noise Control, HVAC System, Passive Absorber, Vibration Measurement

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