Patent ID: 8973906
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. In an apparatus for conditioning an airstream with a humidifier having humidifying elements that are in the airstream to be humidified in the humidifier, that can be supplied with pressurized water, that are formed of a fluid-permeable, porous, hydrophilic material, and that are designed with respect to their cross section such that their outer surface exposed to the airstream to be humidified can be contacted uniformly over the entire outer surface by the airstream to be humidified, the improvement wherein the cross section of the humidifying elements is drop-shaped and points with the tip of the drop or the region of its greatest curvature in a flow direction of the airstream to be humidified, is a wing cross section, tapers in the flow direction of the airstream to be humidified as well as opposite to the flow direction of the airstream to be humidified, or is oval and with a longitudinal axis of the oval parallel to the flow direction of the airstream to be humidified.