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US3823743A
US3823743A US00192146A US19214671A US3823743A US 3823743 A US3823743 A US 3823743A US 00192146 A US00192146 A US 00192146A US 19214671 A US19214671 A US 19214671A US 3823743 A US3823743 A US 3823743A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
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    • F16L55/02—Energy absorbers; Noise absorbers
    • F16L55/027—Throttle passages
    • F16L55/02745—Throttle passages by passing through a mass of particles or a porous member
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L55/00—Devices or appurtenances for use in, or in connection with, pipes or pipe systems
    • F16L55/04—Devices damping pulsations or vibrations in fluids

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  • a pressure reducing device comprises an inlet for high pressure gas, an outlet for low pressure gas and a path therebetween for flow of gas from inlet to outlet, said path including at least one porous baffle having an inner portion made of porous material disposed in an inner zone of said path and an outer portion comprising a fibrous medium disposed in an outer zone of said path, the inner portion having a lower flow resistance than the outer portion.
  • the porous materials used for the inner portion of the baffle include: layers of gauze, expanded metal, sintered metal, ceramic foams and plastics foams such as rigidified foams.
  • the fibrous materials used for the outer portion of the baffle include; spun mineral fibers, natural fibers and glass wool.
  • a pressure reducing device comprises an inlet for high pressure gas, an outlet for low pressure gas and a path therebetween for flow of gas from inlet to outlet, said'path including at least one porous baffle having an inner portion made of porous material disposed in an inner zone of said path and an outer portion comprising a fibrous medium in an outer zone of said path, the inner portion having a lower flow resistance than the outer portion.
  • the inner and outerportions of the baffle are separated by a perforated sheet material.
  • This material may be metal, plastics, woven fabric or any other suitable material.
  • This layer of perforated sheet is used to keepthe fibrous medium in place, in order to assist with its function the baffle may be covered with fine cloth, thereby effectively reducing the size of the apartures without effecting the impedance of the baffles.
  • the inner portion of the porous baffle should be such as to permit expansion of the gas while reducing to a minimum the turbulence produced by the expansion. It is preferred that this inner portion is either conical or part spherical in shape.
  • Porous materials that may be used for the inner portion of the porous baffle of the present invention include: layers of gauze, expanded metal, sintered metal, ceremic foams and plastics foams such as rigiditied foams. These materials should preferably have porosities which give low flow resistance. The flow resistance of the materials used should normally be less than 1 psi per inch thickness when in a stream of gas moving at a velocity within the range 5 to 80 m/sec.
  • the inner portion of the porous baffle is made of a three-dimensionalnetwork arranged so as to define a plurality of cellular spaces which intercommunicate with one another, said network being made substantially of metal.
  • the three-dimensional network is preferably produced by spraying, dipping or electrodeposition of the metal on a porous material.
  • the porous material onto which the metal may be deposited may be in the form of an agglomerate of fiber, such as a felted material or a spong-like or foam material such as natural sponge or a synthetic resinous foam. In general, polyurethane foams are preferred.
  • the porous material may remain in the metal or it may be removed, e.g. by heating to melt or ash-out the material.
  • the foam may be reticulated foam, i.e., a foam in which the organic phase is a three-dimesnional network with no substantial wall portions defining the cells.
  • reticulated foams may be produced by removing the relatively thin cell walls from a foam, e.g., by chemical means such as aqueous, sodium hydroxide in the case of polyurethane foams.
  • Nonconductive materials may be made self-conducting by means of an additive such as graphite or a powdered metal.
  • a conducting surface layer may be applied by coating the material with a curable resinous material incorporating a conductive additive or by chemically depositing a metal thereon, e.g., by the reduction of ammonical silver nitrate in situ. in general, where chemical deposition is employed the surface should be treated with'one or more sensitizing agents such as stannous chloride followed by palladium chloride for silver.
  • Metals which can be electrodeposited include silver, copper, nickel and iron. Alloy foams can be produced in some cases by direct plating and in other cases two or more metals may be deposited successively and the alloy formed by heating the resultant structure. Steel foams can be produced by the incorporation of the required amounts of carbon and/or nitrogen. The carbon may be derived from organic material forming the basic foam or added to an electroplating bath.
  • the resulting alloy foams can, of course, be heattreated to give desirable physical properties, such heattreatments being well-known in the art.
  • the fibrous medium used in the outer portion of the porous baffle is preferably relatively dense compared with the inner portion and may be any fibrous material that is usually used for sound absorption.
  • spun mineral fiber i.e., asbestos wool or Stillite D 50 (Registered Trade Mark) natural fiber, i.e. cotton wool or glass wool are found useful. These materials are preferably packed so that they have a flow resistance in excess of 50 times and more preferably in excess of times that of the material of the inner portion when measured at the same air velocity.
  • baffles according to this invention may be housed in a tube of suitable material positioned between the high pressure inlet and the low pressure outlet, in which case the baffles may be sealed in the tube to prevent gas from by-passing them.
  • baffles may be used alone or in conjunction with an additional mechanical reducing valve and/or with other types of baffle.
  • FIG. 1 The preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 1 comprises a cylindrical inlet 10 and a coaxial cylindrical outlet 11 having a substantially larger diameter than the inlet 10.
  • a porous baffle Disposed between the inlet 10 and the outlet 11 is a porous baffle made up of independent inner and outer portions separated by a sheet of 1/16 inch perforated steel 14 in the form of a cone.
  • the outer portion 12 of the baffle is packed with spun mineral fiber which is available under the trade name Stillite D 50.
  • the inner portion 13 is in the form of a male cone of 10 pore per inch foam metal having a flow resistance of 0.5 psi per inch thickness at an air velocity of 40 m/sec and is located in position by the perforated sheet steel cone 14.
  • the foam metal cone In order to ease construction of the foam metal cone it is constructed from several sheets 16 which are held together by an axial retaining bolt 15.
  • a pressure reducing device of the type described above was constructed in which the inlet had an internal diameter of'2.5 cm and the outlet an internal diameter of 12.7 cm.
  • the overall length of the baffle was 15.7 cm and the inner portion was in the form of a 45 cone made of pore/inch foam metal.
  • the pressure reducing device was tested using spun mineral fiber (Stillite D 50) and Analar grade glass wool in the outer portion of the baffle, these materials were packed so that the outer portion had a flow resistance of 100 psi per inch thickness at an air velocity of 40 m/sec. The results from these tests are compared in Table l withthose for expansion of the gas without a silencer and using only the inner portion of the baffle as a silencer.
  • a pressure reducing device comprising an inlet for high pressure gas, an outlet for low pressure gas and a path therebetween for flow of gas from inlet to outlet, said path including at least one porous baffle having an inner portion made of porous material disposed in an inner zone of said path and an outer portion comprising a fibrous medium disposed in an outer. zone of said path, the inner portion having a lower flow resistance in whichthe inner portion comprises a material selected from the group consisting of layers of gauze, expanded metal, sintered metal, ceramic foam and plastic foams.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the inner portion comprises reticular metal foam.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the reticular metal foam comprises metal deposited on a reticulated organic foam.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the reticular metal foam comprises electrodeposited metal on reticulated organic foam.
  • a pressure reducing device according to claim 1 in which the inner portion is conical.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the inner portion is part spherical.
  • A- pressure reducing device in which the fibrous medium in the outer portion is selected from the group consisting of spun mineral fiber, naturalfiber and glass fiber.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the material of the outer portion has a flow resistance in'excess of 50 times that of the inner portion when measured at the same air velocity.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the material of the outer portion has a flow resistance in excess of times that of the inner portion when measured at the same air velocity.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the inner and outer portions are separated by a perforated sheet baffle.
  • a pressure reducing device in which they perforated sheet baffle comprises a material selected from the group consisting of metal, plastic material and woven fabric.
  • a pressure reducing device in which the perforated sheet baffle is covered with fine cloth.
  • a gas pressure reducing device comprising:
  • said baffle comprising Y an inner portion of porous material whose crosssectional area "increases progressively along an axis in the direction from said inlet to said outlet;

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