Engineering and University of Technology, Lahore

Environment Control System

Types of Absorbents

Submitted by: Ghinwa Naeem

​2016-AE-15

Submitted to: Ma’am Afia Razzaq

The particular assignment of environment control system includes various types of acoustic absorbents with the
brief description of their features, properties and examples as required.
Absorbent Examples
mineral wool, textiles, clothing,
Porous curtains, carpets and certain types of
foam plastic all fall into this
category, draperies, aerated plaster,
fibrous mineral wool and glass fiber​.
Membrane absorbents wood, hardboard paneling, gypsum
or board, suspended plaster ceiling,
Non perforated panels furred out plaster, rigid plastic
boards, glazing, wood floors and
plat forms
Features and Benefits
● Cellular network of minute interlocking pores.
● Effective for the mid-range and treble tones.
● Concert incident sound energy into heat energy by the frictional and
viscous resistance within these pores.
● Their sound absorption is more efficient at the high than at the low
frequencies.
● Their acoustical efficiency improves in the low frequency region with
increased thickness.
● Most commonly used absorbing materials.
● Impervious material, installed on a solid backing but separated from it
by an air space, will be set to vibration when stuck by sound waves.
● Flexural vibration of the panel absorber will absorb certain amount of
incident sound energy, converting into heat.
 ● Maximum absorption will occur in the region of the resonance
frequency of the panel.
● Panel absorbers are efficient as low frequency absorbers.

Porous cum elastic porous material with elastic bucking ● porous material with elastic bucking

● Fundamental tool of noise mitigation.

Baffle Panels from veneer, rigid wood ● The practice of minimizing reverberation.
fiber, slabs, solid cardboards etc.
● Applied to walls and ceilings in building interior to absorb sound and
thus lessen reverberation.

Absorbent Examples Features and Benefits

Perforated material Perforated panels and slabs. ● Holes may be of equal diameter or of different diameters and they may
be symmetrically arranged or arranged randomly on surface of panel.

● Designed to absorb sound of any particular frequency generated by

machines such as machines, air conditioners.
Cavity resonators Cavity resonator chamber.
● Absorb maximum sound energy in the region of its resonance frequency.
● these can be applied
 ✓ as individual unit
✓ as perforated panel resonators
✓ As slit resonator panels.

Resonant absorbers window, door, rigid plastic boards, ● Absorbent material is fixed on a framing with an air space between the
or suspended plaster ceiling, gypsum framing and the wall.
Panel absorber board
● Waves strike the panel then due to flexural vibration of panel, certain
amount of waves are absorbed in panels then converted to heat energy.

Composite absorbers Bottle, empty jar, glass wood, quilt, ● A single unit which performs the function of all other absorbents.
slab, performed fiber board, carbon ● When sound waves strike the panel, they pass through it and damped by
fiber felts.
resonance of the air in the cavity.