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Good Practices On Ventilation System Noise Control

This document discusses noise issues from fans and provides remedies. It notes that fan noise comes from flow turbulence and blade vibration, which is transmitted through ducts or openings. Practical remedies include installing vibration isolators under cooling towers to isolate noise transmission; reducing fan speed at non-busy hours; diverting duct openings away from receivers; installing silencers at fan discharges or enclosures to absorb noise; and providing inertia blocks, vibration isolators, and flexible connectors between fans and ducts or structures to isolate vibration transmission. Noise reductions of up to 30 dB(A) are possible with these remedies.

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Good Practices On Ventilation System Noise Control

This document discusses noise issues from fans and provides remedies. It notes that fan noise comes from flow turbulence and blade vibration, which is transmitted through ducts or openings. Practical remedies include installing vibration isolators under cooling towers to isolate noise transmission; reducing fan speed at non-busy hours; diverting duct openings away from receivers; installing silencers at fan discharges or enclosures to absorb noise; and providing inertia blocks, vibration isolators, and flexible connectors between fans and ducts or structures to isolate vibration transmission. Noise reductions of up to 30 dB(A) are possible with these remedies.

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(B) Practical Remedies 4.

5 Air-borne Noise from Fans

• Provide vibration isolators to support a water cooling tower (see Fig. (A) Problems
11), thereby isolating it from the building structure (see App. VIII).
The noise problem associated with fans may cause noise disturbance to
nearby residents (see Fig.12). It mainly comes from the interaction of
flow turbulence and solid surface of fan blades, and blade / fan
vibration. The noise is transmitted upstream and downstream in the
connecting ducts or to the atmosphere through the fan case.

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(B) Practical Remedies
• Reduce the speed of fans at non-rushed hours. (B) Practical Remedies (Cont’d)
• Divert duct openings away from receivers (see Fig. 13).
• Install a silencer at air discharge point of a fan (see Fig. 14) so as to
absorb noise generated from the fan (see App IX).
• Fabricate a complete enclosure (see Fig. 14) to contain and absorb
the noise energy radiated by the source (see App IV).

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4.6 Structure-borne Noise from Fans
Vibration from an operating fan may be transmitted to the interior of the
(A) Problems building through building structure when the fan is directly mounted on a
supporting structure without proper isolation (see Fig. 15). The vibration
transmitted may activate the building structure to generate noise which
causes noise disturbance to residents inside the building. (B) Practical Remedies

• Provide an inertia block to support the fan (see Fig. 16) so as to add
rigidity and stability to the ventilation system (see App VII), and
provide vibration isolators to support the inertia block (see Fig. 16),
thereby isolating it from the building structure (see App VIII).
• Provide flexible connectors between the fan and associated ducts
(see Fig. 16), thereby isolating it from the ductwork.

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