A position optimization strategy of the dynamic vibration absorber for the noise control of the power equipment

Power equipment shows obvious low frequency line spectrum noise characteristics due to the power frequency. The effective noise control of the power equipment can be achieved by installing dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) on the structure surface of electrical equipment. However, if DVAs are not installed properly, considering the cases that they are installed at the vibration mode node position, the low radiation vibration mode and the redistribution of the integrate vibration power, the vibration and noise absorbing performances of DVAs may degrade. In order to achieve efficient vibration absorption and noise reduction on the power equipment, this paper proposes a low-frequency noise reduction technology for power equipment based on DVAs. The position optimization of the DAVs using in the power equipment is studied for the first time. Aimed at the single frequency radiated sound power of equipment, the integrate radiated sound power of the equipment is minimized through adjusting the position parameters of DVAs. A numerical case is studied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed DVAs position optimization. The results show that the noise control effect of the power equipment with the optimized DVAs is significantly improved. The method proposed in this paper solves the noise problem of the power equipment, which provides reference for power noise control.