Apparatus for reducing the detrimental wind influence on cooling towers
US4278620A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 19, 1980 |
| Grant date | Jul 14, 1981 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2000 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S261/11
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus are provided for reducing detrimental wind influence on cooling towers by mounting at the air inlet to the towers a plurality of spaced baffles, each of which have continuous, smooth, curved, low wind resistance surfaces directed outwardly of the air inlet and high wind resistance surfaces directed toward the interior of the tower.
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