A packing for heat and/or mass transfer between liquid and gaseous media in counter-flow, in particular for water cooling by air in cooling towers, includes a plurality of film elements contoured by corrugations. The corrugations provide flow passages and the film elements are successively arranged behind each other in the thickness direction forming points of contact. Adjacent film elements are connected to one another at their points of contact and mutually facing large surfaces of adjacent film elements have a fine contouring. The fine contouring includes a ribbing with rib webs and rib grooves running transversely to the flow passages. A rib groove is disposed between two adjacent rib webs. The transitions between successive rib webs and rib grooves are designed such that they are substantially free of radii.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger device with at least one heat exchanger (1) which is flowed through by a fluid, at least one fan (11) and at least one adiabatic air cooler (2) for cooling air which is drawn in from the surroundings by the fan (11), wherein the air that has been drawn in is conducted firstly through the air cooler (2) and subsequently through the heat exchanger (1) and the adiabatic air cooler (2) has at least one humidification means (3), which is arranged in the air cooler (2) and which is composed of a moisture-absorbing material and a liquid feed (4), which feeds a liquid to the humidification means (3) in order to keep the humidification means (3) moist. In order that the most uniform possible wetting of the humidification means and higher heat exchange performance can be made possible without an impairment of the stability and the handleability of the humidification means and without oversaturation of the humidification means in the upper region with the liquid, provision is made whereby the humidification means (3) comprises at least two mats (3a, 3b) arranged one above the other and whereby the liquid feed (4) has a distributor device (4a, 4b) which is arranged above each mat (3a, 3b) and which serves for uniformly distributing the liquid onto the mats (3a, 3b), wherein each distributor device (4a, 4b) is connected to a feed line (5) via which the distributor devices (4a, 4b) can be charged with the liquid.

A filtering cartridge assembly includes: a water collecting tray including a first water supplying hole and a plurality of water draining holes in a bottom wall; a water recovery tray below the water collecting tray, and including a second water supplying hole and a plurality of water recovery holes in a bottom wall; a support frame connected between the water collecting tray and the water recovery tray; a water supplying pipe between the water collecting tray and the water recovery tray, and including first and second orifices communicated with the first and second water supplying holes, respectively; and a plurality of water guiding members in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of water draining holes, the water guiding member including a first end passing through the corresponding water draining hole and a second end connected to the bottom wall of the water recovery tray.

A heat exchanger apparatus includes at least one metal sheet with a corrugated surface, fabric covering at least a part of one surface of the at least one metal sheet to promote evaporation, and a wetting agent in the fabric to promote wetting of the fabric, the wetting agent also acting as an anti-microbial agent.

A mesh panel for a heat exchanger system is provided. The mesh panel comprises a mesh body extending from an upper end to a lower end, the mesh body having an inlet side and an outlet side opposite the inlet side. The mesh body comprises a plurality of mesh wires arranged to form a mesh pattern defining a plurality of mesh openings between the mesh wires, and at least one penetrating mesh portion extending at least partly along a depth direction of the mesh body, the depth direction being normal to a plane extending between the upper and lower ends of the mesh body, the at least one penetrating mesh portion at least partly defining an air flow opening, the air flow opening having greater dimensions than each of the mesh openings.

A fill sheet and a fill pack manufactured from a plurality of fill sheets for cooling a cooling medium in a cooling tower, each fill sheet having a plurality of flutes extending diagonally from top to bottom of the fill sheet, the diagonal orientation of the flutes resulting from a plurality of alternating longer diagonal flute segments and shorter vertical flute segments, each of the plurality of flutes having the microstructure including a plurality of alternating rounded mounds and rounded depressions extending between flat ridge edges and flat valley edges of the flutes.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger apparatus comprising at least one metal sheet (10) (e.g. aluminium), and preferably a plurality in a stack. Each metal sheet (10) has a corrugated surface, with fabric covering at least a portion of one surface of the metal sheet to promote evaporation. A wetting agent (e.g. LiCl/Polyvinyl-Alcohol (PVA) solution) is provided in the fabric to promote wetting of the fabric, and also acts as an anti-microbial agent. The fabric preferably covers all of the corrugated surface, and two planar portions are provided above and below the corrugated surface respectively. In use, the heat exchanger apparatus is disposed with a long side vertical and the corrugated surface is disposed on a middle portion, the upper planar portion is contiguous with an air outlet, and/or the lower planar portion is contiguous with an air inlet. In a preferred embodiment, the corrugated surface has in cross-section a profile of a periodic waveform, wherein the peak-to-peak distance is 11.6 mm, the amplitude is 2.5 mm, and corrugations intersect the plane of the heat exchanger apparatus at an angle to that plane of 50 degrees. Also disclosed are a cooling system incorporating the heat exchanger apparatus and methods of operating the cooling system, involving intermittently operating a water supply system for the application of water to the fabric, and/or, recirculating water from a water sump using the water supply system.

A mesh panel for a heat exchanger system is provided. The mesh panel comprises a mesh body extending from an upper end to a lower end, the mesh body having an inlet side and an outlet side opposite the inlet side. The mesh body comprises a plurality of mesh wires arranged to form a mesh pattern defining a plurality of mesh openings between the mesh wires, and at least one penetrating mesh portion extending at least partly along a depth direction of the mesh body, the depth direction being normal to a plane extending between the upper and lower ends of the mesh body, the at least one penetrating mesh portion at least partly defining an air flow opening, the air flow opening having greater dimensions than each of the mesh openings.

The invention relates to an anti-blocking seawater desalination device based on graphene filtering, comprising heating device, solar heat-collecting device, fresh water condensation heat-exchange device and thermal-expansion and cold-shrinkage control valve mechanism; the heating device can fully heat and distill seawater, the sprayed seawater is distilled by graphene heat-conduction layers to improve the distillation efficiency and avoiding blocking; the distilled water vapor enters into fresh water condensation heat-exchange device to exchange heat with seawater, increasing the seawater temperature, making full use of the heat in water vapor, and increasing water vapor condensation speed; the distilled concentrated seawater enters into the thermal-expansion and cold-shrinkage control valve mechanism, the flow of seawater entering into the heating device is controlled by the concentrated seawater temperature, when the temperature is too high, the flow of the seawater entering into the heating device increases, and when the temperature is too low, the flow decreases.

A fill sheet and a fill pack manufactured from a plurality of fill sheets for cooling a cooling medium in a cooling tower, each fill sheet having a plurality of flutes extending diagonally from top to bottom of the fill sheet, the diagonal orientation of the flutes resulting from a plurality of alternating longer diagonal flute segments and shorter vertical flute segments, each of the plurality of flutes having the microstructure comprising a plurality of alternating rounded mounds and rounded depressions extending between flat ridge edges and flat valley edges of said flutes.