INFLATABLE CHIMNEY-TYPE COOLING TOWER Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC F28C1/00 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: inflatable cooling tower comprises a metal frame, water catcher, circular water distributor equipped with sprinklers, irrigator, support ring, the air intake windows in which the dampers are mounted on vertical axles, and the shell of the tower consists of toroidal rings filled with air and circumferentially separated into sections by the plates, made of a flexible, sealed, corrosion-resistant material, mounted on each other and interconnected along the annular bottom, an inner toroidal ring is mounted on the support ring and fixed to it, a compressor connected to a conduit made of a flexible, hermetic, corrosion-resistant material and consisting of a vertical flow line connected to the sections of each toroidal ring through the pipe headers connected to the circular distributor rings which are in turn connected to the each section with the section heads equipped with return valves on the sections input.

EFFECT: invention improves the efficiency of the cooling tower.

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