Indirect evaporative cooling of a gas using common product and working gas in a partial counterflow configuration

a technology of working gas and common product, which is applied in the field of indirect evaporative coolers, can solve the problems of high cost of desiccant-dried air use, and achieve the effects of increasing the temperature of the working gas, increasing the latent heat load of the working air, and increasing the enthalpy of the exhaust air
US20050210907A1Inactive Publication Date: 2005-09-29IDALEX TECH INC
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US · United States
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IDALEX TECH INC
Publication Date
2005-09-29
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Abstract

An indirect evaporative cooler includes a number of heat transfer plates. Each plate has a wet side and a dry side, and the dry sides of adjacent plates face each other. The plate dry sides have low permeability to an evaporative liquid. Input air flows over the dry sides from an input end to an output end. Part of the input air becomes product air and exits at the output end. The rest of the input air passes through perforations in the plates to the other side of the plates to become working air. The other side of each plate is a wet side, which is wet by an evaporative liquid. Working gas flows over the wet side, evaporating the evaporative liquid and cooling the evaporative liquid, the plate, and finally the product gas by heat transfer. The perforations are formed both toward the input end of the plate and toward the output end of the plate. Part of the wet side of the plate, toward the output end of the plate, has a plurality of barriers placed to cause the working gas at that end of the plate to flow in a direction generally counter to the input air.
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[0001] U.S. Pat. No. 6,581,402, issued Jun. 24, 2003 is incorporated herein by reference. U.S. Pat. No. 6,705,096, issued Mar. 16, 2004 is incorporated herein by reference. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 061,124, filed on Feb. 18, 2005, entitled “Plate Exchanger Edge Extension” is incorporated herein by reference. This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 553,875, filed Mar. 17, 2004BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] 1. Field of the Invention

[0003] The present invention relates to indirect evaporative coolers. In particular, the present invention relates to such coolers configured to utilize common product and working gas, with part of the working gas flowing in a counter-direction to the product gas.

[0004] 2. Discussion of the Background Art

[0005] Indirect evaporative cooling is a method of cooling a fluid stream; usually air, by evaporating a cooling liquid, usually water, into a second air stream while transferring heat from the fir...

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