Wet cooling tower with plume eliminator
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorJames O. Stephens
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Abstract
A wet cooling tower has an encircling exhaust header in communication with the exhaust of a plurality of gas turbines and a plurality of upwardly inclined conduits, which direct the hot exhaust gas tangentially into the cooling tower to increase the temperature and velocity of the moisture laden air flowing therethrough to lift the effluent air into the upper atmosphere and eliminate the plume under many weather conditions.
Claims6
In combination a wet cooling tower, a header subtending at least a portion of said cooling tower, means for supplying hot gases to said header, a plurality of conduits extending from said header into said cooling tower, each of said conduits being inclined upwardly and being generally disposed tangentially with respect to a circle disposed within the cooling tower, whereby hot gases flowing through said conduits follow a generally upwardly swirling path increasing the temperature and velocity of the upwardly flowing moisture laden air inducing mixing and lifting the moisture laden air into the upper atmosphere.
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