Trickle structures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing trickle bodies for air conditioning in buildings, particularly animal housings, have unsatisfactory evaporation capacity and stability, which affects their performance in humidification, cooling, and air cleaning.
Innovation Solution
The design features corrugated layer elements forming alternately closed and permeable wave troughs and peaks with partially open and latticed surfaces, creating low flow resistance and enhanced evaporation capacity, along with injection-molded plastic elements for increased stability and uniformity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional trickle bodies are used, then basic air conditioning function is provided, but evaporation capacity and stability are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The trickle body is divided into multiple layer elements (at least three) with alternating closed and permeable configurations. This segmentation allows different regions to perform specialized functions - closed layers provide structural stability while permeable layers enhance evaporation, resolving the contradiction between stability and evaporation capacity
Solution Approach 2:
Different portions of the trickle body have different permeability characteristics. The closed-wall layer elements and permeable layer elements are alternately arranged, creating local variations in flow resistance and evaporation rate. This local quality differentiation optimizes both overall stability and localized evaporation capacity
2Productivity
If permeable surfaces are increased to improve evaporation, then evaporation capacity increases, but flow resistance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flow path is segmented into alternating high-resistance (closed-wall) and low-resistance (permeable) sections. This segmentation prevents excessive flow resistance buildup while maintaining sufficient evaporation surface area, as water flows through a series of controlled resistance zones rather than a single high-resistance barrier
Solution Approach 2:
The trickle body utilizes the vertical dimension with alternating layers arranged in sequence from top to bottom. This dimensional arrangement allows water to progress through multiple evaporation stages with varying permeability, managing flow resistance across the vertical dimension while maintaining high overall evaporation capacity
3Object-affected harmful factors
If opaque material is used to block light, then light passage is reduced, but visibility and monitoring become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The opaque layer elements are segmented and alternated with permeable elements, creating a patterned structure. This segmentation allows strategic placement of opaque sections to block harmful light while leaving other sections accessible for monitoring, reducing the overall difficulty of detection compared to complete opacity
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
The solution results in improved air conditioning characteristics, higher evaporation capacity, and increased stability, allowing for efficient humidification, cooling, and air cleaning with reduced flow resistance and opacity.
Implementation Method 1
The water flows through the trickle bodies and here flows downward in and/or an these same. That promotes the evaporation of the water, which results in the desired humidification and cooling
Implementation Method 2
the layer elements are, for the one part, of closed-wall configuration and, for the other part, of permeable configuration, to form partially closed and partially permeable flow channels
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AI summary
Trickle bodies for the air conditioning of, in particular, animal housings, that possess only partially latticed layer elements. Trickle bodies are formed of a plurality of sandwiched layer elements that, in known trickle bodies, are formed of corrugated and completely latticed plastics foil. The trickle bodies formed of such layer elements possess a relatively low stability and a limited evaporation capacity. The plastics-formed layer elements of the instant invention are produced by injection molding, allowing layer elements having corrugation heights of more than 12 mm to be formed. Such trickle bodies are more stable, enable a high evaporation capacity and are, moreover, also less permeable to light.