COOLING TOWER SPRINKLER Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: thermal power engineering; sprinklers for counter-flow cooling towers. SUBSTANCE: cooling tower sprinkler has block of vertical plates provided with horizontal rows of alternating in each row ridges and cavities to form two concentric walls, peripheral one being 1.2-1.2 and 1.5-2.5 times greater in height and diameter than internal wall, respectively. Ridges and cavities of each plate are displaced in adjacent horizontal rows to form alternating inclined rows of ridges and cavities positioned at 60-45 deg. to line crossing centers of walls of horizontal row. Adjacent plates are placed in mirror-like manner to one another. EFFECT: improved design. 4 dwg