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Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

Never heard of such a thing.

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RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

(OP)
we're thinking we are having vortex shedding-caused acoustic vibration in the strainer

RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

Why is that an issue?

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RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

I think what you are looking for is more FLOW induced than ACOUSTIC induced vibration. AIV is usually associated with thin wall pipe and fittings under high pressure drop large and flow rate. This excites a bell like ringing in the pipe which can cause rapid failure if associated with a longitudinal weld, discontinuity or similar.

Which kind of strainer are you interested in ? It might be worthy of note that a witch's hat type strainer is structurally very similar to a flow diffuser, often located downstream of a noisy control valve, and thus I would suspect, not a vibration source, perhaps, quite the opposite ?

RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

(OP)
Gents,

Thanks on your responses. The flow induced vibration is creating noise of about 120 dBA, source seems to be the strainer spool. We will shortly open the strainer and look inside.

RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

Velocity is too high. Resize the strainer for present flow rates.

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RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

(OP)
strainer was working fine while mesh was on
no other changes to the system or strainer or op parameters
vortex shedding?

RE: Strainer design philosophy re acoustic vibrations

The mesh was reducing velocity, but it was such a high pressure drop across it that the mesh got ripped out.

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