Gas and liquid contact apparatus – With external supply or removal of heat – Recirculating fluid
Patent
1976-01-30
1978-09-05
Chiesa, Richard L.
Gas and liquid contact apparatus
With external supply or removal of heat
Recirculating fluid
165DIG1, 261111, 261DIG11, 261DIG77, B01F 304
Patent
active
041120272
ABSTRACT:
A high efficiency, induced draft, combination counterflow-crossflow fluid cooling apparatus and method is provided which gives unexpectedly enhanced cooling of hot fluid by causing the fluid to pass upwardly through a series of serpentine heat exchange conduits in primarily countercurrent, indirect sensible heat exchange relationship with external cooling water gravitating from an overlying evaporative water cooling section. Crossflowing air currents are pulled through the apparatus to evaporatively cool the water not only in the upper cooling section but also in the sensible heat exchange area as well. Countercurrent flow of coolant water and fluid to be collected ensures that the coldest water and coldest fluid are in thermal interchange during the final stages of fluid cooling at the upper ends of the heat exchange conduits, so that the fluid temperature can approach that of the cold water as opposed to approaching the temperature of heated water found adjacent the lower ends of the conduits, which is conventional in cocurrent fluid units of this type. The fluid conduit system is preferably arranged for causing increased fluid residence time, and thereby greatest temperature difference and longer heat exchange between the fluid and coolant water adjacent the air inlet of the apparatus where air and coolant water temperatures are lowest relative to the fluid to be cooled, so that an ideal countercurrent flow relationship is obtained and maximum heat transfer is assured. An underlying water collection basin is also employed in the apparatus which is constructed to permit collection of cooling water to a level above that of the lowermost portions of the hot fluid conduits, in order to allow the hot fluid traveling through the conduits to heat the collected water to prevent freezing thereof during wintertime operations when the internal water pump is shut down causing the stoppage of all evaporative cooling and hence a raising of the lower water basin level.
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Chiesa Richard L.
The Marley Company
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