US 4,459,244 AGranted

Device for contactors for use in cooling towers and the like

AssigneeAB Carl Munters

InventorPer Norback

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Abstract

Device for a contactor (10) for liquid and gas, e.g. for use in cooling towers and the like, such contactor being built up of mutually spaced membranes (12, 14) forming ducts for the passage of a fluid introduced at the top of the contactor and collected in a trough or channels below the membranes. In order to be able to collect the liquid passing through the contactor immediately beneath the lower surface of the latter, thereby reducing the pumping height without appreciably affecting the flow conditions of the air passing through the contactor, the contactor (10) is provided with surfaces to carry of the liquid which are inclined at an angle relative to the horizontal and are connected to at least one collecting channel or trough (16), these surfaces serving to carry the liquid passing out of the contactor into the collecting channel (FIG. 1).

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Dependent claims

A liquid and gas contactor for use in cooling towers of the type wherein the contactors are positioned at a substantial distance above a basin designed to collect liquid passing through the contactor, the contactor comprising:

a plurality of membranes spaced apart to form therebetween ducts for the passage of liquid through the ducts by being introduced at the upper portion of the contactor,
at least a majority of the membranes being corrugated and having ridge portions on the corrugations and so positioned that alternate corrugated membranes have their corrugations directed at an angle to the corrugations of the next corrugated membrane,
the lower portion of the membranes being obliquely cut,
collection trough means integrally connected to the membrane portion of the contactor and adjacent to the obliquely cut lower portion of the membranes, whereby liquid discharging from a plurality of the ducts formed by the membranes travels along the obliquely cut portion and may be collected in the trough means, and
a reinforcing member provided in the contactor for supporting the collection trough means, the reinforcing member projecting beneath the lower portions of the membranes and being connected to the collection trough means.

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