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High insertion loss is desirable and can be achieved by using plug-muffler elements which consist of two cross-flow perforated sections. However, the plug-mufflers have an inherent disadvantage of high back-pressure which may affect the engine performance adversely. In this paper, a novel structural modifications has been introduced to the plug-muffler to obtain better acoustic performance as well as low back-pressure. Three configurations have been analyzed here including the classical plug-muffler configuration. Back-pressure has been calculated using the lumped flow-resistance network theory for all three configurations and compared. To evaluate the transmission loss, the 1-D (plane wave) analysis has been carried out using the Integrated Transfer Matrix (ITM) method and the results so obtained are validated against 3-D FEM using a commercial software.