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<p>The purpose of this paper is to provide a fast, efficient, and low-cost digital design method for the design of suction mufflers in refrigerator compressor plants. The main content of this paper is to establish a three-dimensional acoustic model of the compressor suction muffler by using Solidedge software, combine the upper suction port of the muffler with the valve group, then use Hypermesh to mesh the acoustic model and carry out the theoretical calculation, transform the control differential equation in the solution domain into the integral equation on the boundary by Green's function, discretize the boundary and carry out the numerical solution. The boundary is discretized and solved numerically. The transfer matrix quadrupole parameters are used to describe the acoustic components, and the transfer matrix of the discontinuous cross section is obtained to transform the complex system into a chain superposition of simple systems. The dependent variable in the partial differential equation to be solved is changed to a linear system of equations, and the transmission loss is calculated from the incident and transmitted sound pressure. The theoretical calculation of the transmission loss of the muffler is performed using LMS. Virtual. Lab software and the design solution is continuously optimized using this software. The experimental analysis shows that the designed muffler is printed and trimmed by 3D printing equipment and loaded onto the transmission loss test bench for experimental testing, and the highest theoretical value differs from the test result by 10dB.</p>
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a fast, efficient, and low-cost digital design method for the design of suction mufflers in refrigerator compressor plants. The main content of this paper is to establish a three-dimensional acoustic model of the compressor suction muffler by using Solidedge software, combine the upper suction port of the muffler with the valve group, then use Hypermesh to mesh the acoustic model and carry out the theoretical calculation, transform the control differential equation in the solution domain into the integral equation on the boundary by Green's function, discretize the boundary and carry out the numerical solution. The boundary is discretized and solved numerically. The transfer matrix quadrupole parameters are used to describe the acoustic components, and the transfer matrix of the discontinuous cross section is obtained to transform the complex system into a chain superposition of simple systems. The dependent variable in the partial differential equation to be solved is changed to a linear system of equations, and the transmission loss is calculated from the incident and transmitted sound pressure. The theoretical calculation of the transmission loss of the muffler is performed using LMS. Virtual. Lab software and the design solution is continuously optimized using this software. The experimental analysis shows that the designed muffler is printed and trimmed by 3D printing equipment and loaded onto the transmission loss test bench for experimental testing, and the highest theoretical value differs from the test result by 10dB.

Digital design and experimental testing of a compressor's suction muffler transmission loss

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a fast, efficient, and low-cost digital design method for the design of suction mufflers in refrigerator compressor...

Digital design and experimental testing of a compressor's suction muffler transmission loss

Published Online: Apr 28, 2023

Page range: -

Received: May 11, 2022

Accepted: Sep 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2023.1.00112

Keywords
Compressor, Muffler, 3D printing, Finite element method, Transmission loss

© 2023 Jiayou Song, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Digital design and experimental testing of a compressor's suction muffler transmission loss

Published Online: Apr 28, 2023

Page range: -

Received: May 11, 2022

Accepted: Sep 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2023.1.00112

KeywordsCompressor, Muffler, 3D printing, Finite element method, Transmission loss

© 2023 Jiayou Song, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Compressor, Muffler, 3D printing, Finite element method, Transmission loss