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Downstream control or safety valves, emitting gas or steam into the open air or controlling pressures or volume flows within a pipe system, often require blow-out silencers or inline silencers to limit the noise emission of the whole system to values demanded by the law.

The silencers should be adapted to the respective noise sources; safety valves, for instance, can cope with back pressures of 10 to 15 % of the valves’ setting pressure.

Approaching this limit, i. e. to design the blow-out silencer to meet exactly this admissible back pressure, offers several advantages:

- the valves themselves will be discharged and possibly become less noisy
- the pipes downstream from the valves will be smaller and
- the silencers themselves can assure an optimum flow.

In the case of inline silencers, however, pressure losses must often be minimised in order to be able to maintain the full control range of the valve. If need be, two silencers upstream and downstream from the valve have to be adjusted to the control valve behaviour. In addition, the pipe insulation has to be adapted to the acoustic effect of the silencers. Sometimes some insulation can be omitted so that considerable costs can be saved by using silencers.

Start-up systems in power plants consist of control valves, start-up valves, condensate tanks, blow-out silencers and a large number of pipes that are equally interdependent regarding their dimensions, control behaviours and acoustic effects.

During combustion procedures and at low speeds, engines often generate low-frequency, sometimes significant single-tone sound emissions for which special reactive silencers have to be used, possibly in combination with absorption silencers. The arrangement of the silencers, depending on the design of the ducts and duct insulation, represents a complete exhaust system in which all components have to be adapted to each other. This also applies to the inlet side of the engines (intake opening with filter, silencer and ducts), where the acoustic effect as well as the pressure losses of filters and silencers have to be harmonised.

All the above examples show that a silencer as well as the other components of an entire functional system can only reach an optimum efficiency if they are best harmonised. To be able to assure this without loss of information and to keep the intersection points, and thus work for our clients, to a minimum, we offer complete systems including everything (e.g. from the valve to the blow-out silencer, or exhaust systems from the engine flange to the exhaust pipe already equipped with insulation and silencer).



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