The present paper focuses on the experimental determination of automotive twin-scroll turbine acoustic performance. The unique test-rig for automotive turbocharger acoustics at KTH CCGEx laboratory is further developed to enable testing of modern twin-scroll turbines under controlled laboratory conditions. It is shown how the passive acoustic properties of such turbines can be accurately characterized by means of an acoustic three-port formulation. Governing equations along with the new test-rig design are presented and discussed in detail. Furthermore, complementary results from the first experimental determination of twin-scroll turbine acoustic three-port data are presented.

Current trends for IC-engines are driving the development of more efficient engines with higher specific power. This is true for both light and heavy duty vehicles and has led to an increased use of super-charging. The super-charging can be both in the form of a single or multi-stage turbo-charger driven by exhaust gases, or via a directly driven compressor. In both cases a possible noise problem can be a strong Blade Passing Frequency (BPF) typically in the kHz range and above the plane wave range. In this paper a novel type of compact dissipative silencer developed especially to handle this type of problem is described and optimized. The silencer is based on a combination of a micro-perforated (MPP) tube backed by a locally reacting cavity. The combined impedance of micro-perforate and cavity is chosen to match the theoretical optimum known as the Cremer impedance at the mid-frequency in the frequency range of interest. Due to the high damping achieved at the Cremer optimum (hundreds of dB/m) it is easy to create a compact silencer with a significant damping (say > 30 dB) in a range larger than an octave. Both simulations and experimental tests of the novel silencer are presented based on a light duty vehicle application.

The Cremer impedance (Acustica 3, 1953) [1] is the locally reacting boundary condition that maximizes the attenuation of a certain mode in a uniform wave guide taken as the lowest order mode or "plane" wave. This paper presents the analysis of the "exact" Cremer impedance model, i.e., the high frequency asymptotic results proposed by Tester for uniform mean flow (JSV 28(2), 1973) [2] are extended to lower frequencies. It is shown that significantly larger attenuation per unit length can be obtained using the exact instead of the asymptotic solution. However, for sufficiently low frequencies the "exact" Cremer solution and optimum attenuation is requiring a wall impedance with a negative real part, i.e. an active boundary. In addition, the effect of a finite length on the resulting attenuation is studied using a finite element method for solving the convected wave equation. Finally, it is demonstrated how a silencer can be built that realize the optimum Cremer impedance at a given frequency by using a micro-perforated panel and locally reacting cavities. The performance of the optimized silencer is determined experimentally and the results are compared to the prediction of the finite element model.