LIQUID AND GAS CONTACT APPARATUS

A contact apparatus for liquid and gas, primarily used in air conditioning systems, which includes a contact body composed of first and second sets of corrugated sheets arranged with the sheets of the first set disposed alternately with the sheets of the second set. The corrugations of the sheets pr...

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Main Author MUNTERS C,SW
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 19.02.1974
Subjects
BLASTING
CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY
DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OFGENERAL APPLICATION
HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS,IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACTWITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
HEATING
LIGHTING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
SEPARATION
THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
TRANSPORTING
WEAPONS
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Summary:A contact apparatus for liquid and gas, primarily used in air conditioning systems, which includes a contact body composed of first and second sets of corrugated sheets arranged with the sheets of the first set disposed alternately with the sheets of the second set. The corrugations of the sheets provide channels for passageways which penetrate the contact body from edge to edge, with both horizontal and vertical components of direction. A liquid distributing means is disposed over the top edge of the contact body. The channels thus formed are simultaneously passed by a flow of the gas in one direction and by the liquid in either counterflow or crossflow directions. The corrugations of the first set of sheets cross the corrugations of the second set of sheets, at an acute angle in the range of from 20 DEG to 80 DEG . The corrugations of the first set of sheets have a greater inclination to the horizontal plane of the contact apparatus than the corrugations of the second set of sheets; and the corrugations in the first set of sheets are inclined upwardly in the direction of the gas flow; the bisector of the angle of the corrugations of the respective sheets inclining downwardly opposite to the direction of gas flow with respect to the horizontal plane of the contact body; whereby to counteract an undesirable lateral displacement of the liquid stream caused by the gas flow, and causes the liquid to be distributed uniformly and causes evenly over the sheets.
Bibliography:Application Number: USD3792841