Refrigeration – Material cooling means including gas-liquid contactor
Patent
1998-02-25
1999-09-07
Bennett, Henry
Refrigeration
Material cooling means including gas-liquid contactor
62309, 62315, 261101, 261100, 261DIG3, F25D 2500
Patent
active
059469315
ABSTRACT:
An evaporative cooling membrane device is disclosed having a flat or pleated plate housing with an enclosed bottom and an exposed top that is covered with at least one sheet of hydrophobic porous material having a thin thickness so as to serve as a membrane. The hydrophobic porous material has pores with predetermined dimensions so as to resist any fluid in its liquid state from passing therethrough but to allow passage of the fluid in its vapor state, thereby, causing the evaporation of the fluid and the cooling of the remaining fluid. The fluid has a predetermined flow rate. The evaporative cooling membrane device has a channel which is sized in cooperation with the predetermined flow rate of the fluid so as to produce laminar flow therein. The evaporative cooling membrane device provides for the convenient control of the evaporation rates of the circulating fluid by adjusting the flow rates of the laminar flowing fluid.
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Lomax Curtis
Moskito John
Bennett Henry
Lupuloff Harry
Mannix John
Padilla Robert M.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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