PACKING FOR HEAT-EXCHANGE AND MASS-TRANSFER APPARATUS Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: heat engineering, metallurgy, petroleum refining, petroleum chemistry and other branches using circulating water supply and water cooling in cooling towers at their plants. SUBSTANCE: packing uses volumetric long-sized members assembled in a block with a framed shell, having a profile in the form of a three-petal figure verities and conjugations between these petals concaved inside the shell; the radius of rounding-off of the petal vertices is less than the radius of concavity between them. At such a configuration of the member profile in the block each rounded petal vertex and each concaved conjugation between the petals deflect and break the water splashes, which ensures finely divided sprinkling in the cooling tower and enhances the efficiency of water cooling by 15 to 20%. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of water cooling. 2 dwg