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One of the most important problems present in an industrial coal-fired heating devices is how to remove the soot and ash remains deposited inside the heating system. Traditional methods require the boiler to be switched off during the cleaning. An alternative is to remove such remains using high energy beam of acoustic energy. A simple acoustic generator with tubular resonator was built for the purpose. In the paper the control system for the generator was also described. The system used both accelerometer and microphone as a sound and vibration level sensors.
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Jedrusyna, A., Noga, A. (2014). A Simple Acoustic Generator for Boiler Cleaning Applications. In: Březina, T., Jabloński, R. (eds) Mechatronics 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02294-9_49
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