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Optimization of baffle configurations to prevent aeroacoustic instabilities in heat exchangers: Preliminary experiments.
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PMID:  18190010     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Gas heat exchangers are prone to aeroacoustic instabilities, which often lead to severe noise levels, structural vibrations, and fatigue. Actually, this problem is solved by placing rigid baffles inside the container, which modify the acoustic modal fields and eventually inhibit the instability. For realistic industrial components using a restricted number of acoustical baffles, their optimal location is a challenging problem, as trial and error experimentation is often a costly and frustrating procedure. Recently, some strategies were proposed for the optimal location of a single baffle in a typical re-heater from a power station boiler, based on simulated annealing as well as genetic algorithm approaches. In this paper and using the above-mentioned optimization strategies, a more complex case of the problem-the optimal location of a given number (two or more) of baffles in a typical re-heater, was addressed. Some preliminary experiments were performed and compared with the simulation results. From the discussion, improvements in the developed optimization functional were proposed. [This work has been endorsed by the Portuguese FCT and POCI 2010, with funding participation through the EC programme FEDER (Project No. POCI/EME/5728/2004).].
Authors:
A Miguel Moreira; Jose Antunes; Vincent Debut; Martins Paulino; Heitor Pina
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America     Volume:  122     ISSN:  1520-8524     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.     Publication Date:  2007 Nov 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-01-14     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7503051     Medline TA:  J Acoust Soc Am     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  3053     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
College of Technol., Setubal Polytechnic Inst., Campus do Instituto Politcnico de Setubal, Estefanilha 2910-76, PortugalInst. of Nuclear Technol., PortugalTech. Inst., 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
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