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US 12,498,176 B2Granted
Cooling apparatus and method
AssigneeSphere Technologies Ltd
InventorsAryeh Mordechai Fox, Yair Suued
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Abstract
An apparatus including: (a) a liquid conduit with sealable connectors at opposite ends thereof and air conduits passing vertically therethrough; (b) one or more mist generators positioned to deliver mist to said air conduits; and (c) an airflow generator positioned and configured to move said mist through said air conduits.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a central conduit comprising one of:
- a plurality of tubes, and a plurality of plates, wherein each one of the plurality of tubes or the plurality of plates has a first surface that comes in contact with a flowing liquid and a second opposite surface that comes in contact with air comprising droplets;
- an airflow generator positioned at a first upper end of said central conduit, and configured to produce an air flow and introduce said air flow to said second surface;
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- one or more misters positioned at a second bottom end of said central conduit, and configured to deliver mist to said air flow, thereby a mixture of said mist and said air flow forms a thin water-film that is dynamically being drawn upward along said second surface.
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A method of cooling a hot liquid, comprising:
- introducing hot liquid into a central conduit of a cooling device, via an inlet, wherein the central conduit comprises one of:
- a plurality of tubes and a plurality of plates, wherein each one of the plurality of tubes or the a plurality of plates has a first surface that comes in contact with a flowing liquid and a second opposite surface that comes in contact with an air comprising droplets;
- producing an airflow and introducing said air flow to said second surface;
- producing and delivering mist to said air flow, thereby forming a thin water-film on said second surface, that is dynamically being drawn upward along said second surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.