SPRAY-TYPE COOLING TOWER Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: contact coolers, in particular, mechanical-draft towers, applicable in chimney-type spray-type cooling towers. SUBSTANCE: the spray-type cooling tower has a body with air-intake ports in the lower part, water-distributing system with injectors located symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the stack, catchment basin positioned under the cooling tower body, exhaust system made as a fan and located above the body, watercatching device, besides, the cooling tower has a drip-entrapping device in the form of a spatial construction located from the upper boundary of the air-intake ports at a distance of +-0.1h, where h - the height of the airintake port, the height of the drip-entraping device with relation to the height of the air-intake port makes up at least 0.01h, in the water-distributing system the injectors are directed with the outlets upwards, the drip- entrapping device may be made of wooden strips, plastic or asbestos cement. EFFECT: enhanced intensity of cooling of circulating water with atmospheric air. 4 cl, 1 dwg