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PVP2014
July 20-24, 2014, Anaheim, California, USA
PVP2014-28794
Neal Evans
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
San Antonio, TX 78238 USA
neal.evans@swri.org
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MEASUREMENT RESULTS
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Fig. 5 NORMALIZED PARAMETERS
Future methods to predict failures related to 6. Hanno, Heller and Peter Franken. Noise of Gas
acoustically induced vibration may wish to rely upon the Flows, Chapter 16 in Noise and Vibration Control,
predicted sound pressure level, rather than power, which is ed. Leo Beranek. McGraw Hill, 1988.
more easily validated by measurement. Further testing would
be useful in exploring the effects of different valve geometries 7. IEC 60534-8-3. Industrial-process control valves -
and configurations, operating conditions, and higher molecular Part 8-3: Noise considerations - Control valve
weight fluids such as CO2. aerodynamic noise prediction method, Edition 3.0,
2010-11, International Electrotechnical Commission,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Geneva, Switzerland (2010).
The author would like to thank Dr. Tim Allison for 8. Pierce, Allan D. Acoustics: An Introduction to Its
his effort in leading the blowdown testing and providing Physical Principles and Applications. Published by
useful comments on this study, Dr. Andrew Marshall for the Acoustical Society of America through the
valuable discussions throughout the data collection and American Institute of Physics, 1994.
analysis process, and Nathan Poerner for help with
experimental setup and data acquisition.