Cooling tower for steam-powered plants

US4936881A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Saarbergwerke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Sigurd Jorzyk · Riegelsberg, DE
• Gerhard Scholl · Friedrichsthal, DE
• Heinz Holter
• Heinrich Igelbuscher
• Heinrich Gresch · Wickede (Ruhr), DE
• Heribert Dewert · Gladbeck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 1989
• Grant date: Jun 26, 1990
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S261/46
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cooling tower has a flue gas outlet extending upwardly above the heat exchanger baffles in which the water from a steam power plant is cooled in counterflow to a rising cooling air stream. The mouth of the duct is formed with a droplet trap supplied with rinse water and cooperates with a collector for the rinse water which is led out of the tower independently of the cooled water of the heat exchanger zone.