Evaporation cooling tower
AssigneeKraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
InventorRoland Meyer-Pittroff
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Abstract
An evaporation cooling tower, includes an outer tower wall defining an interior of the cooling tower having upper and lower regions, the wall having ambient air intake holes formed in the periphery thereof at the lower region, a cooling water trickling system disposed in the interior of the cooling tower through which ambient intake air flows, electrostatic discharge shafts at the upper region for receiving relatively moist and warm exhaust air and precipitating fine water droplets therefrom, and a device for admixing relatively cool ambient air to the warm and moist exhaust air flowing to the discharge shafts.
Claims11
Evaporation cooling tower, comprising an outer tower wall defining an interior of the cooling tower having upper and lower regions and an outlet opening having a given cross section, said wall having ambient air intake holes formed in the periphery thereof at said lower region, a cooling water trickling system disposed in the interior of the cooling tower through which ambient intake air flows, collecting electrodes disposed in and entirely covering said given cross section of said outlet opening, said collecting electrodes having honeycombshaped openings formed therein with open tops and bottoms, counter electrodes in the form of filamentary spray electrodes each hanging through a respective one of said honeycomb-shaped openings of said collecting electrodes, and discharge nozzles for ambient air disposed below said collecting electrodes.
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