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US20090025903A1
US20090025903A1 US12/280,399 US28039907A US2009025903A1 US 20090025903 A1 US20090025903 A1 US 20090025903A1 US 28039907 A US28039907 A US 28039907A US 2009025903 A1 US2009025903 A1 US 2009025903A1
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Jussi Vaarno
Tapio Hyodynmaa
Eero Tuuppa
Markus Lehtonen
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C1/00—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
    • F28C1/04—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers with cross-current only
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C1/00—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
    • F28C1/02—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers with counter-current only
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C1/00—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
    • F28C1/06—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers with both counter-current and cross-current
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C1/00—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C3/00—Other direct-contact heat-exchange apparatus
    • F28C3/06—Other direct-contact heat-exchange apparatus the heat-exchange media being a liquid and a gas or vapour
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F25/00—Component parts of trickle coolers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F25/00—Component parts of trickle coolers
    • F28F25/10—Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B30/00—Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]
    • Y02B30/70—Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating

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  • the present invention relates to an arrangement and method, defined in the independent claims, for cooling a solution in a cooling tower.
  • cooling towers where the cooling process is based on the evaporation of liquid drops in the upwardly flowing air from the liquid drops to be cooled.
  • the air flow is colder than the liquid flow, in which case the downwardly flowing liquid is cooled owing to heat transfer. Consequently, convection takes place in the cooling process, and droplets moving against the air flow are evaporated. Heat is emitted, as the liquid is cooled in the cooling tower.
  • cooling towers are typically either hexagonal or quadrangular cylinders.
  • the solution to be cooled is conducted to the tower in a known fashion through the top part thereof, and the cooling air is fed in through the side of the cooling tower.
  • droplets containing particle material are separated from the solution. Said droplets are separated from the gas contained by the harmful particle material in separate droplet separator devices prior to letting the gas out.
  • the separated liquid is conducted back to the cooling tower.
  • the impurities are accumulated on the tower walls and floor as well as to the droplet separator elements, which creates a need to frequent maintenance procedures.
  • the efficiency of a cooling tower can be improved by enhancing an even distribution of the cooling air.
  • Conventionally the cooling air distribution in the cooling tower has been attempted to be improved by placing an obstacle in front of the cooling air feed aperture in the vertical direction, in which case the direction of the air flow can be turned more upwardly.
  • the publication CA 2271424 A1 discloses a cooling tower for cooling liquid.
  • the wall consists of an outer wall and an air-permeable, flexible inner wall, in which case part of the air is injected through pores arranged in the inner wall to the cooling space, where it meets the liquid to be cooled.
  • the object of this arrangement is to remove deposits accumulated on the inner wall.
  • an optimal cooling solution is not achieved by this arrangement, owing to the pressure loss caused by the inner wall.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate some of the drawbacks of the prior art and to realize a new way for cooling liquid.
  • a particular object of the invention is to introduce a new cooling equipment and method, in which case the cooling efficiency is increased both by feeding cooling air to the cooling space and by conducting the outwardly flowing air out of the cooling tower both horizontally and tangentially with respect to the cooling tower.
  • the invention relates to a cooling equipment for cooling liquid, comprising: a cooling tower that is mainly cylindrical in the vertical direction, said cooling tower including an outer surface, an upper part of the cooling tower and a bottom part, which together define the cooling space; cooling air feed equipment comprising at least one inlet aperture on the cooling tower outer surface; means for feeding cooling air to the inlet aperture and further to the cooling space of the cooling tower; liquid feed equipment comprising means, such as liquid nozzles, for feeding the liquid to be cooled to the cooling space, discharge equipment for the exhaust air, as well as means for removing the cooled liquid, in which case the cooling air feed equipment and the exhaust air discharge equipment are arranged, with respect to the cooling tower, so that both the flowing direction of the cooling air from the inlet aperture to the cooling space and the flowing direction of the exhaust air out of the discharge equipment is horizontal and parallel with the tangent of the outer surface of the cooling tower.
  • cooling equipment By means of a cooling equipment according to the invention, an even distribution of cooling air is advantageously achieved in the cooling zone, and the cooling process is enhanced.
  • the component of the horizontal rotation speed of the air flow is simultaneously raised.
  • the delay time of the cooling air in the cooling space is increased, and consequently the cooling efficiency of the liquid droplets flowing in the tower is improved.
  • the exhaust air discharge equipment comprises a housing element including at least four, preferably eight, outlet apertures arranged vertically with respect to the horizontal cross-section of the cooling tower.
  • the outlet apertures are placed equidistantly in the housing element, in which case each plane parallel to the surface of the outlet aperture forms an equally large angle with the tangent of the outer surface of the cooling tower.
  • in each outlet aperture there is vertically installed at least one droplet separator element for separating the liquid droplets from the exhaust air.
  • the droplet separator element is formed of at least two adjacently positioned, air-permeable vertical plates with a corrugated profile.
  • the cooling arrangement according to the invention makes the maintenance operations of the liquid feed equipment and exhaust air discharge equipment easier because of the practical positions thereof.
  • the ratio of the height of the outlet aperture and the height of the cooling tower in the vertical direction is 1:5, in which case an optimal cooling efficiency is achieved.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a cooling equipment according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a cooling equipment according to the invention, seen in a cross-section of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a cooling equipment according to the invention
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a cooling equipment 1 according to the invention for cooling liquid, such as electrolyte.
  • FIG. 2 shows a cross-section of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , seen from the direction A.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a cooling equipment according to the invention, seen as three-dimensional.
  • the cooling equipment 1 comprises a cooling tower 2 with a mainly cylindrical cross-section in the vertical direction, provided with an outer surface i.e. wall 3 , an upper part 4 and a bottom part 5 of the cooling tower, which together define the cooling space 6 .
  • the shape of the cooling tower 2 is a cylinder in the vertical direction, but it may also have a shape where the cross-section becomes wider in the upper part 4 , in which case a wider acceleration area is achieved for the air flow before it is exhausted from the cooling tower.
  • the upper part and the bottom part are closed while the cooling is in operation.
  • the outer surface 3 of the cooling tower is typically made of fiberglass or a corresponding material.
  • the cooling air 7 is fed in the cooling space 6 of the cooling tower 2 horizontally with respect to the cooling tower, and in parallel with the tangent 15 of the outer surface of the cooling tower, by means of cooling air feed equipment 8 , comprising at least one inlet aperture 9 arranged on the outer surface 3 of the cooling tower, and means such as a fan for feeding the cooling air further to the cooling space 6 of the cooling tower. There may also be several inlet apertures arranged at different spots of the outer surface 3 .
  • the liquid 10 to be cooled is fed by means of liquid feed equipment 11 , comprising means such as for example liquid nozzles 24 for injecting the liquid 10 to be cooled to the cooling space 6 .
  • the liquid drops to be cooled move in the cooling tower against the vertically upwardly proceeding air flow 20 , in which case water is evaporated therefrom.
  • the air flow becomes turbulent, and its velocity in the horizontal direction increases. Smaller droplets are separated from the downwardly flowing cooled drops, which droplets are conducted to the exhaust air discharge equipment 12 , which is in communication with the cooling space 6 .
  • the exhaust air discharge equipment 12 liquid droplets are separated from the air and can be recirculated to be recooled in the cooling tower 2 .
  • the cooled liquid is removed for instance through a hole 13 provided in the bottom part 5 of the cooling tower, or through an overflow aperture 25 , and sent to further processing.
  • the exhaust air discharge equipment 12 comprises an at least partly hollow housing element 19 , provided according to the example with eight outlet apertures 16 arranged vertically with respect to the horizontal cross-section of the cooling tower 2 .
  • the outlet apertures are arranged in the vertical direction in relation to the exhaust air flow 14 , the exhaust air flow 14 is allowed to be discharged horizontally and in parallel with the tangent 15 of the outer surface 3 of the cooling tower.
  • the outlet apertures 16 are positioned equidistantly in the housing element 19 , in which case each plane 17 parallel to the surface of the outlet aperture forms an equally large angle B with the tangent 15 of the outer surface of the cooling tower 2 .
  • the ratio of the vertical height 22 of the outlet aperture 16 and the vertical height 23 of the cooling tower is preferably 1:5.
  • each outlet aperture 16 is provided with a droplet separator element 18 arranged vertically in parallel with the outlet aperture surface, which separator element 18 separates liquid droplets from the exhaust air 14 , and the droplets can be recirculated back to the cooling tower.
  • the droplet separator element 18 is formed of at least two adjacently arranged, air-permeable vertical plates with a corrugated profile.
  • a maintenance level 21 can be installed to surround the cooling tower 2 , in the vicinity of the upper part 4 thereof, from which maintenance level 21 the maintenance of the cooling equipment is easily carried out.

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ZA200806541B (en) 2009-08-26
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WO2007096457A3 (fr) 2007-11-08
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