Modular Cooling Tower Air Intake Guide Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cooling towers face inefficiencies in cooling water distribution, with external air primarily reaching the peripheral regions, leading to reduced cooling efficiency, and face challenges in transportation and installation due to large, non-modular designs.
Innovation Solution
A modular cooling tower design with air intake ports and guides that direct external air to the central portion, ensuring even cooling water distribution and modular components for scalable installation and transportation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If external air is introduced through air intake ports in the sidewalls below the filling material, then air can be supplied to the cooling tower, but most of the air directly rises and only a small amount reaches the central portion, reducing heat exchange efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The air intake system is segmented into multiple air intake ports distributed around the sidewalls, with each port serving a specific radial zone. This segmentation allows independent control and optimization of air flow to different regions, ensuring uniform air distribution both at peripheral and central portions of the filling material.
Solution Approach 2:
Different air intake ports are positioned at different heights and angles to create localized air flow patterns. The air intake ports are strategically located to direct air flow specifically to regions that need enhanced cooling, such as the central portion, while maintaining overall uniform distribution across the filling material.
2Reliability
If a conventional non-modular cooling tower is manufactured, then it can provide cooling function, but it becomes difficult to transport and install at the installation site
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling tower is divided into multiple modular segments including water tank modules, filling material modules, and eliminator modules. Each module can be independently manufactured, transported, and assembled, greatly improving logistics convenience and installation flexibility while maintaining the complete cooling function when assembled together.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular design creates universal building blocks that can be configured in different arrangements to meet various cooling requirements. The same basic modules can serve multiple functions and be adapted to different installation sites, enhancing both transportation ease and functional versatility.
3Power
If the cooling tower is designed as a large integrated structure, then it can provide sufficient cooling capacity, but productivity and convenience in transportation are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The large cooling tower structure is segmented into standardized modules that can be pre-manufactured and then rapidly assembled on-site. This maintains the required large cooling capacity while dramatically improving productivity through parallel manufacturing of multiple modules and reduced on-site construction time.
Solution Approach 2:
Modules are pre-assembled and pre-tested at the manufacturing site before transportation to the installation location. This preliminary action ensures quality control, reduces on-site assembly complexity, and accelerates the overall installation process, thereby improving productivity without compromising cooling capacity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances cooling efficiency by evenly spraying cooling water across the tower, simplifies transportation and installation with modular components, and maximizes productivity.
Implementation Method 1
The cooling tower causes high-temperature cooling-water to be brought into contact with air so as to evaporate a portion of the cooling-water, so that latent heat for the evaporation thereof is used to reduce the temperature of the cooling-water.
Implementation Method 2
The cooling tower causes high-temperature cooling-water to be brought into contact with air so as to evaporate a portion of the cooling-water, so that latent heat for the evaporation thereof is used to reduce the temperature of the cooling-water.
Implementation Method 3
the high-temperature cooling-water and the low-temperature external air are subjected to heat exchange with each other within the filling material 20
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a cooling tower for cooling water, improved to evenly spray the cooling-water, wherein each component is manufactured in a modularized form and then each module is integrated and installed at an installation site to correspond to the scale of the cooling tower. The cooling tower includes a water tank, a filling material, a cooling-water circulation facility, an eliminator, and a fan, wherein, between the filling material and the water tank, an air intake port through which external air is introduced and a guide having a concave cross-sectional shape to guide the introduced air to the center using a pressure difference between the inside and the outside thereof are additionally provided so that cooling efficiency of the cooling-water can be improved and productivity of the cooling tower as well as convenience in transportation and installation can be maximized.