The Effect on the Environmental Vibration of Changing a Gas Engine’s Support

Abstract

Gas engines about the size of 1MW power and bigger are usually mounted carefully on vibration isolating parts in order to reduce the environmental vibration level of the engine. It can happen though that for some reason damaging resonance appear on the machine. In certain cases these resonance can be eliminated by changing the elastic support of the engine. This publication shows through a case study how changing the elastic support of the engine effects it’s environmental vibration. The evaluation of the environmental vibration is possible through a LabVIEW application developed by the author of this article.