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US 2016/0102875 A1Published application
Advanced Multi-Purpose Multistage Evaporative Cold Water/Cold Air Generating and Supply System
AssigneeR4 Ventures LLC
InventorsMikhail Pavlovich Reytblat, Darrell Richardson
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Abstract
This discloses apparatuses for industrial or commercial cooling (or any other cooling) using staged cooling towers to evaporatively reach temperatures below the wet bulb temperature of the ambient air. Methods for using such apparatuses are disclosed as well.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a initial-stage (IS) cooling assembly that comprises a cooling tower having:
- an ambient air inlet without an associated heat exchanger,
- an air outlet,
- a cooling fluid reservoir disposed near a bottom of the IS cooling tower;
- and
- a fan dedicated to the IS cooling tower, and configured to move air through the IS cooling tower,
- a final-stage (FS) cooling assembly that comprises a cooling tower having:
- an air inlet,
- an air outlet,
- a cooling fluid reservoir disposed near a bottom of the FS cooling tower,
- a fan dedicated to the FS cooling tower, and configured to move air first through the FS air-inlet heat exchanger then the FS cooling tower,
- a heat exchanger at the air inlet of the FS cooling tower;
- and
- a variable flow cooling fluid pump that is adapted to pump cold cooling fluid through FS supply piping;
- wherein
- the IS cooling fluid reservoir at least connects to one or more of the following heat exchangers:
- the FS air-inlet heat exchanger;
- and
- an optional mid-stage (MS) air-inlet heat exchanger;
- wherein warmed cooling fluid returns directly to wet media of the IS cooling tower and to the IS cooling fluid reservoir for reuse,
- wherein
- the FS cooling fluid reservoir connects to a primary cooling load and optionally one or more additional cooling loads and warmed cooling fluid returns directly to wet media of the FS cooling tower and returns to the FS cooling fluid reservoir for reuse.
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