Gas and liquid contact apparatus – Fluid distribution – Systems
Patent
1994-11-30
1996-08-13
Miles, Tim R.
Gas and liquid contact apparatus
Fluid distribution
Systems
261 30, 261111, 261DIG11, 5274509, 5274520, B01F 304
Patent
active
055453562
ABSTRACT:
A direct forced counterflow cooling tower apparatus includes concrete side walls having L-shaped troughs located at the lower ends thereof. The cooling tower includes a liquid distribution system, fill material located below the liquid distribution system, a drainage collection system located below the fill material and a fan located below the drainage collection system. Liquid is supplied to the tower and is distributed on top of the fill material. The liquid will pass downward therethrough and will be collected by the drainage collection system. The drainage collection system will communicate the liquid to the troughs located at the lower end of the longitudinal side walls. A modular cooling tower construction includes the cooling tower apparatus in combination with at least one additional cooling tower apparatus. The first and at least one additional cooling tower apparatus are aligned longitudinally in series so that the first troughs of the first and at least one additional cooling tower apparatus form a first substantially continuous liquid passageway and so that the second troughs of the first and the at least one additional cooling tower apparatus form a second substantially continuous liquid passageway. The liquid received in the first and second continuous liquid passageways exit the modular cooling tower construction and is dumped in a reservoir.
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Curtis Harold D.
Oberlag Randal K.
Miles Tim R.
Tower Tech, Inc.
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