Patents Assigned to GEA Luftkuehlergesellschaft Happel GmbH & Co. KG
  • Cooling tower
    Patent number: 3944636
    Abstract: A cooling tower has circumferentially distributed inlet openings at the lower end for the entrance of cooling air and a central upper outlet opening. Cooling air flows through the tower, on the one hand, counter-currently to a medium to be cooled which flows in downward direction over a trickling unit (wet cooling section), and on the other hand, parallel thereto about heat-exchanger elements, flown through by a medium to be cooled (dry cooling section). The trickling unit and the heat-exchanger elements are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: GEA Luftkuehlergesellschaft Happel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz J. Schuldenberg, Hans-Bernd Gerz