Patent ID: 6070860
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: F28C,Y02B,Y10S

Abstract:
A crossflow water cooling tower comprising:upright fill structure including a plurality of fill elements and presenting an upright air inlet face, an opposed upright air outlet face, an upper face extending transversely between the inlet and outlet faces, and an upper portion proximal to said upper face;a plurality of spaced apart hot water distributors oriented to deliver hot water to be cooled to said upper portion of the fill structure for gravitational flow therethrough;a cold water collection basin disposed below said fill structure in order to collect cold water gravitating from the fill structure; anda cooling air current generator operable to produce ambient-derived cooling air currents which enter said fill structure inlet face and exit the fill structure both laterally through said outlet face and upwardly through said upper face, with at least about 50% of the total air flow through the fill structure exiting the fill structure through said upright air outlet face, the spacing between said distributors permitting passage of air currents therebetween.