Acoustic Insualtion superior material

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Hi All,

can anyone help me for selecting superior acoustic insulation material?
mineral wool or calcium silicate
give basis for same.

thanks in advance

 

[Tmoose]

Got noisy pipes?

 

[GregLocock]

The cheapest is better because it is cheaper.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[9870204648]

tmoose

yes to avoid noise in pipe, acoustic insulation is used.

please help me for selecting superior material.

 

[Tmoose]

I think the nature of the noise needs to be well understood before selecting a product or method. I don't think either of those products by themselves are likely to solve many noisy pipe problems.

"noisy pipes" sometimes are airborne noise radiating from the pipe full of noisily flowing liquid. That can be >>contained<< by lagging which is effectively an enclosure compliantly mounted (over mineral wool?) to the pipe.

Sometimes the complaints stem from "structure borne noise" getting into the building, etc via the pipe mounts or even points where the vibrating (from noisy flow, or the pump vibration, etc) piping simply touches drywall or anything else. Then the path must be broken or made very soft/compliant. Pipe coverings have no effect structure borne noise.

Some good descriptions of noise control here, looking a lot like the out-of-print info from B&K.

http://www.nonoise.org/hearing/noisecon/noisecon.htm