WO2017044809A1 - Procédé et appareil permettant de réduire l'eau à un minimum et destinés à des dispositifs de refroidissement par évaporation - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil permettant de réduire l'eau à un minimum et destinés à des dispositifs de refroidissement par évaporation Download PDF

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WO2017044809A1
WO2017044809A1 PCT/US2016/051048 US2016051048W WO2017044809A1 WO 2017044809 A1 WO2017044809 A1 WO 2017044809A1 US 2016051048 W US2016051048 W US 2016051048W WO 2017044809 A1 WO2017044809 A1 WO 2017044809A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F5/00—Air-conditioning systems or apparatus not covered by F24F1/00 or F24F3/00, e.g. using solar heat or combined with household units such as an oven or water heater
    • F24F5/0007—Air-conditioning systems or apparatus not covered by F24F1/00 or F24F3/00, e.g. using solar heat or combined with household units such as an oven or water heater cooling apparatus specially adapted for use in air-conditioning
    • F24F5/0035—Air-conditioning systems or apparatus not covered by F24F1/00 or F24F3/00, e.g. using solar heat or combined with household units such as an oven or water heater cooling apparatus specially adapted for use in air-conditioning using evaporation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28C—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION
    • F28C1/00—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
    • F28C1/14—Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers comprising also a non-direct contact heat exchange
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D5/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, using the cooling effect of natural or forced evaporation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D5/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, using the cooling effect of natural or forced evaporation
    • F28D5/02—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, using the cooling effect of natural or forced evaporation in which the evaporating medium flows in a continuous film or trickles freely over the conduits
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F25/00—Component parts of trickle coolers
    • F28F25/02—Component parts of trickle coolers for distributing, circulating, and accumulating liquid
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B30/00—Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]
    • Y02B30/54—Free-cooling systems
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B30/00—Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]
    • Y02B30/70—Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating

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  • the present invention is directed to improvements in evaporative cooling systems, conditioning systems that utilize thermodynamic laws to cool a fluid. Namely, a change of a fluid from a liquid phase to a vapor phase can result in a reduction in temperature due to the heat of vaporization involved in the phase change.
  • raw water is supplied to or recirculated through a heat exchanger and is vaporized by extracting heat from supply air flowing through the heat exchanger.
  • Most readily available forms of raw water include various contaminants, most notably dissolved salts and minerals.
  • excess water supplied to the heat exchanger that has not evaporated is collected in a reservoir and then pumped back to the heat exchanger.
  • minerals and salts dissolved in the raw water remain, building in concentration as the water volume decreases.
  • Make-up water is supplied to the system to compensate for the evaporated water, but the salts and minerals remain and can become deposited on the heat exchanger as sealants if the concentration is too high.
  • FIG. 3 represents a schematic of a typical direct evaporative cooler 100.
  • Water or another suitable cooling liquid is recirculated from a reservoir 110 through a supply line 112 to a distributor 116 using a pump 114.
  • Distributor 116 evenly distributes the supplied water over a heat exchanger, such as evaporative pad 118.
  • Supply air 124 is passed through the pad, where it is cooled and humidified to exit as cooled air 126.
  • the water fed from distributor 16 flows down and through the pad and evaporates as it meets the warm supply air 124.
  • a bleed stream controlled by valve 120 for example, is removed from the system through bleed or drain line 121 to drain 122 to control mineral build-up in the water.
  • Fresh make-up water is added as needed from water supply 128 to replace the water evaporated and bled.
  • the make-up water can be controlled by a float valve or other level sensing device (not shown) provided in the reservoir 110.
  • FIG. 4 depicts a typical indirect evaporative cooler, in this instance a fluid cooler 200.
  • Fluid cooler 200 includes a housing 202 having air inlets 204 and an air outlet 206.
  • a sump 210 that functions as a reservoir is disposed at the bottom of housing 202.
  • Water or another suitable coolant is drawn from sump 210 through supply line 212 using a pump 214.
  • the pumped water is supplied to a spray head 216, which sprays the water over heat exchanger 218 so as to draw heat from the heat exchanger.
  • the sprayed water is collected in the sump 210.
  • a bleed valve 220 is provided in supply line 212 in order to bleed off cooling water through bleed line 221 to drain 222. Air is drawn through air inlets 204 and out air outlet 206 using a fan 230 driven by a motor 232 via a belt. The fluid to be cooled is supplied to heat exchanger 218 through inlet 218-1 and discharged through outlet 218-2.
  • cool air 226 is first passed over the outer surface of heat exchanger 218, through which flows a hot fluid to be cooled.
  • the fluid to be cooled may be a liquid such as water, or a gas, such as air.
  • the heat exchanger 218 is sprayed with a recirculated water stream using supply line 212, pump 214 and spray head 216 and an air stream is simultaneously generated to flow over the wet exchanger surface to evaporate water and produce cooling of the primary fluid inside the heat exchanger.
  • a bleed or water from the recirculation sump is required to prevent mineral build-up.
  • Make-up water is added from supply 228 to replenish the evaporated and bled water.
  • the present invention can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of evaporative cooling systems by utilizing bleed off cooling water in a supplemental cooling process.
  • the present invention can utilize the bleed water to provide a portion of the evaporative work and reduce the water lost to drain and thus the total amount of water consumed by the evaporative cooling system.
  • the present invention can provide an alternative to water pre-treatment or chemical treatment as a means of reducing bleed water requirements and thus total water usage. It may be used alone or in conjunction with other techniques.
  • an evaporative cooling system includes a primary cooling unit that utilizes a cooling fluid flowing through a primary heat exchange medium to cool supply air flowing past the primary heat exchange medium, a bleed line and a secondary cooling unit disposed upstream of the primary cooling unit with respect to a flow direction of the supply air.
  • the primary cooling unit includes a supply line for supplying the cooling fluid to the primary heat exchange medium, a return reservoir for collecting the cooling fluid supplied to the primary heat exchange medium, and a pump for recirculating the cooling fluid collected in the reservoir back to the supply line.
  • the bleed line is configured to bleed a portion of the recirculating cooling fluid from the primary cooling unit.
  • a gas conditioning system includes a primary conditioning unit, a bleed line and a secondary conditioning unit.
  • the primary conditioning unit is configured to condition a gas flowing therethrough, and utilizes a
  • the bleed line is configured to bleed a portion of the conditioning fluid from the primary conditioning unit.
  • the secondary conditioning unit is disposed upstream of the primary conditioning unit with respect to a flow direction of the gas, and utilizes the conditioning fluid bled from the primary conditioning unit through the bleed line to pre-condition the flowing gas, and any excess bleed water that is not completely evaporated by the secondary conditioning unit is directed to a conditioning unit for further evaporation.
  • a method of cooling supply air in an evaporative cooling system includes supplying cooling fluid to a primary heat exchange medium; bleeding a portion of the cooling fluid supplied to the primary heat exchange medium; supplying the bled cooling fluid to a secondary heat exchange medium; flowing the supply air through the primary heat exchange medium and the secondary heat exchange medium; and directing any excess bleed cooling fluid that is not completely evaporated by the secondary heat exchange media to a heat exchange medium for further evaporation.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an evaporative cooling system of a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of modified de-watering media used in the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a typical direct evaporative cooling system.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a typical indirect evaporative cooling system.
  • FIG. 5 is schematic view of a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is schematic view of a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • the bleed water from an evaporative cooler is utilized to cool the air entering an evaporative section of a typical evaporative cooling system, such as a system described above with respect to Figures 3 and 4. This is accomplished by passing the bled water over dewatering media, or mineral removal media (MRM), which is itself a direct evaporative cooling section.
  • MRM mineral removal media
  • the evaporative cooling device following the MRM media can be of any type, including, as discussed above, the direct evaporative type where water is evaporated into the air as a means to cool the air and the indirect evaporative type where water is evaporated into an air stream as a means to cool a third fluid contained in a heat exchanger that is wetted in the evaporative cooling zone, and even a cooling tower, where water is evaporated to an air stream as a means to cool a water supply.
  • FIG 1 is a schematic view of an evaporative cooling system of a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Evaporative cooling system 300 utilizes one of the typical direct or indirect evaporative coolers described with respect to Figures 2 and 3, which is used as a primary cooling apparatus.
  • the selected primary cooling apparatus is schematically shown by reference numerals 100, 200 in Figure 1.
  • the system of the first embodiment of the present invention includes a sump or reservoir 310, supply line 312, pump 314 and distributor or spray head 316. These components are used to supply water or another suitable cooling fluid to the primary evaporator of the apparatus, that is, evaporative pad 118 or heat exchanger 218.
  • the system of the current embodiment utilizes a bleed valve 320 and a bleed line 321 to bleed off a fraction of the cooling water.
  • a bleed valve 320 and a bleed line 321 to bleed off a fraction of the cooling water.
  • the cooling water flows down the primary evaporative pad 118 or heat exchanger 218 and is collected in sump 310 to be recirculated by pump 314 back to the distributor or spray head 316.
  • make-up water can be supplied to sump or reservoir 310 from water supply 328, which is controlled by a float valve (not shown) or any other suitable device.
  • the amount of bleed from supply line 312 is determined by bleed valve 320.
  • bleed valve 320 is variable and controllable by a controller 330.
  • Controller 330 can be any suitable systems microcontroller.
  • the parameters of the bleed valve can be preset and adjusted according to system conditions.
  • a total dissolved solids (TDS) meter or probe 332 can be provided somewhere in the recirculating cooling water circuit, such as at the sump 310, to determine the amount of dissolved solids in the cooling liquid.
  • TDS total dissolved solids
  • controller 330 can be analyzed so that controller 330 controls bleed valve 320 to bleed a greater percentage of cooling water as the amount of detected solids increases.
  • auxiliary evaporative media or pad 340 can also be referred to as dewatering media, sacrificial media, or mineral removal media.
  • Auxiliary evaporative media 340 is disposed upstream of evaporative cooling apparatus 100, 200 with respect to the flow of air to be cooled. Airflow 323 entering auxiliary evaporative media 340 is cooled and humidified as airstream 324 that passes through primary evaporative pad 118 or heat exchanger 218.
  • Air that flows through primary evaporative cooling apparatus 100, 200 is further cooled and humidified in a principal evaporative cooling process and exhausted as exhaust airflow 326.
  • auxiliary evaporative media 340 By precooling the air using auxiliary evaporative media 340 before entering the primary evaporative cooling process, bled water that would typically be wasted to drain is used to pre-cool the air and allow for improved efficiency and effectiveness of the evaporative cooling system.
  • the bleed water that passes over the mineral removal media 340 is reduced in volume and increases in mineral content as it evaporates. As this occurs, scale will be deposited on the mineral removal media 340. Depending on the setting of bleed valve 320, the water volume may be reduced to zero through complete evaporation before exiting mineral removal media 340. Any water that does not evaporate and does pass completely through the mineral removal media 340 is not returned to the sump, but directed to drain 322. This residual water will have a very high mineral content, and will have left behind a substantial amount of minerals and salts on the evaporative media. As such, the media will eventually become heavy with thickened and scaled walls and will need replacement or cleaning.
  • a disposable or cleanable, low-efficiency evaporative cooling medium or pad 340 that pre-treats (pre-cools) the air that enters the primary evaporative cooling device and is wetted by the bleed water is preferred.
  • the media is designed to be disposable or cleanable as the minerals will deposit on the surface as water evaporates.
  • the openings in the media are designed with a pore dimension large enough to compensate for the shrinking that occurs as the scale build-up progresses.
  • the wet bulb efficiency of the pre-treatment media is selected so that the majority of all of the bleed water is evaporated before it can leave the media.
  • the media wet bulb efficiency should be between about 10 and 50%; the higher the bleed rate, the higher the required evaporative efficiency.
  • the sacrificial pad may also start to act to selectively remove lower solubility mineral salts, such and calcium and silica based salts, while not precipitating out higher solubility salts, such as sodium or chloride based salts, or other contaminants in the water supply, which may be subject to regulations relating to the maximum concentration possible to discharge to a waste water stream.
  • An alternate approach is to collect any excess flow that is not completely evaporated by the auxiliary media, and re-apply the concentrated water solution to the MRM media.
  • This can be effected by another pump, or as the excess may be very intermittent and not of large volume, a drain pan under the auxiliary media may be designed to collect this excess flow and allow the MRM to act as a wicking humidification media.
  • the excess liquid may flow laterally to other sections of the MRM that are dry at the lower edge, be wicked up by this media, and then be fully evaporated.
  • additional media may be designed to act solely as a wicking media for complete evaporation of this water. This media may then be serviced at intervals separate from the servicing of the auxiliary media.
  • system 400 includes similar elements as in the first embodiment, such as evaporative pad 118 (unless an indirect evaporative cooler is used), sump 310, pump 314, bleed valve 320, bleed line 321, and auxiliary evaporative media 340. These components work similarly as in the first embodiment and will not be described in detail here.
  • the current embodiment also includes drain pan 410, with or without a reapplication pump 412 (Figure 5), or a modified drain pan 415 and wicking media 420 ( Figure 6). Drain pan 410 is positioned below auxiliary evaporative media 340 to collect any excess flow of the bleed water.
  • auxiliary evaporative media 340 is positioned so that its lower edge will sit in any accumulated excess bleed water in drain pan 410 so that the accumulated water can flow along the lower edge of media 340 to sections of that media that may be dry. The dry sections will wick up the excess water to effect total evaporation. If the collected water is to be reapplied to the auxiliary evaporative media 340, reapplication pump 412 is provided to pump the collected water back to the upper edge, or any other appropriate location, of the auxiliary evaporative media 340 through reapplication line 415. Pump 412 can be activated by a float switch or any other appropriate device.
  • system 500 includes drain pan 510 provided to capture the excess liquid from auxiliary evaporative media 340 and direct it to the lower edge of wicking media 520.
  • Wicking media 520 is positioned upstream of auxiliary evaporative media 340 with respect to the airflow direction, but can be designed with a smaller profile so as not to significantly obstruct the airflow through the auxiliary evaporative media 340.
  • the excess water in drain pan 510 will be wicked by wicking media 520 so as to effect total evaporation.
  • the wicking media 520 can be made of the same material as the auxiliary evaporative media or any of the other evaporative materials discussed herein.
  • the modified drain pan 510 is designed to guide the excess water from the auxiliary evaporative media 340 to the lower edge of wicking media 520. This can be effected by providing upper and lower sections of the drain pan, with the excess water being captured in the upper section and flowing by gravity to the lower section where the wicking media is positioned. [0037] Referring back to the original embodiment, during times when it is sensed that there is excess water exiting the auxiliary MRM media, the primary bleed can be interrupted to ensure that complete evaporation of the primary bleed water is accomplished.
  • a secondary bleed system which directs the water directly to drain may be fitted.
  • This bleed should be based on a second bleed criterion different from the primary bleed described above. Examples of the control method would be to operate the bleed in a traditional manner at times when the TDS is above a second, higher concentration level, operate if the primary bleed has not been able to respond and correct the TDS concentration over a given period of time, or by sensing the presence of the concentration of one of the highly soluble minerals and bleeding to drain when it exceeds a determined threshold.
  • Cycles of concentration is a measure that compares the level of solids of the recirculating water to the level of solids of the original raw make-up water. For example, if the circulating water has four times the solids concentration than that of the make-up water, then the cycles of concentration is 4. For a given cycles of concentration, the preferred pre-treatment evaporative cooler efficiency can be calculated. To illustrate this point, the following tables outline evaporation rates and bleeds rates given a system treating 1000 scfm of air with an evaporative media with an 85% efficiency rating.
  • Table 1 describes the air conditions as they change as the air travels first from an inlet with conditions of 95°F dry bulb and 75°F wet bulb through 85% efficiency evaporative media. In this table there is no mineral removal pad so the efficiency for that pad is given as 0%.
  • the units for airflow are both standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) and pounds per hour (lbs/hr)
  • the units for water flow are lbs/hr
  • the units for humidity are grains per pound (gr/lb)
  • the dry bulb (db) and wet bulb (wb) temperatures are in degrees F.
  • Evaporative (Evap) efficiency or Wet Bulb Efficiency is defined as (Temperature of the entering air - temperature of the air exiting an adiabatic evaporative exchanger) - (Temperature of the air entering - Web Bulb temperature of the air entering).
  • the air is cooled and humidified from 95°F db, 75°F wb, 99 gr/lb to 78°F db, 75°F wb and 127 gr/lb.
  • the evaporative cooling results in an evaporation of 17.9 lbs per hour. In order to maintain the desired Cycles of Concentration at 2.2, 14.9 lbs/hr of water are required to be led to drain.
  • the system is fitted with a mineral removal pad with a 25% efficiency rating.
  • the following table shows the results of the air traveling through the system.
  • the air first is exposed to the dewatering pad where its temperature is first reduced from 95°F to 90°F and its moisture increased from 99 gr/lb to 107 gr/lb before it enters the primary direct evaporative cooling exchanger.
  • the exchanger its temperature and moisture are further reduced to 77°F and 128 gr/lb.
  • the mineral removal pad has done some of the evaporative cooling work, the amount of water evaporated in the primary exchanger has been reduced from 17.9 lbs/hr to 13.5 lbs/hr. In order to maintain the primary exchanger sump with a Cycles of Concentration of 2.2, 11.2 lbs/hr must be bled.
  • the pre-treat evaporation rate can be made to match the main evaporator bleed rate.
  • even higher efficiency media can be used to ensure more or all the water is evaporated, but at a cost of higher pressure drop and higher capital cost.
  • the total evaporative efficiency of the system increased by the addition of increasingly efficient mineral removal pads.
  • Another approach is to reduce the efficiency of the primary exchanger as the efficiency of the mineral removal pad is increased.
  • the combination of a mineral removal pad efficiency of 39% coupled with a primary exchanger efficiency of 77 % results in air being conditioned to 78°F db as in Example 1, but with no resultant bleed water.
  • An initial prototype was created to test the method and prototypical device.
  • An evaporative cooler module designed to treat 10,000 scfm of air was positioned outdoors in the hot summer climate in San Antonio, TX.
  • the cooler included evaporative cooling media, in particular, Munters GLASdek 7060, 8" deep structured fill evaporative cooling media as the primary evaporative cooling pad, a sump with float fill valve, a recirculating pump to apply water continuously to the top of the GLASdek pad, and a fan to draw air across the cooler.
  • the system was also fitted with a conductivity controller and a bleed valve in order to control sump Total Dissolved Solids (TDS).
  • TDS Total Dissolved Solids
  • SAWS San Antonio water district
  • the incoming water TDS was measured to be 250 ppm, so the conductivity controller was set to 550 ppm to achieve the desired CoC.
  • the system was run with water meters on both the fill and bleed lines to confirm that an appropriate amount of water, approximately 45%, was bleeding in order to maintain the sump TDS at 550 ppm.
  • the system was fitted with 2" deep CELdek 7060 evaporative cooling media on the inlet air stream as the auxiliary evaporative cooling media.
  • Other types of evaporative media can also be used, such as Aspen pads made of random weaving of shaved aspen wood; however, design considerations would favor the use of a structured evaporative fill such as CELdek due to the low pressure drop and consistently sized air openings that will provide consistent and repeatable scale build-up with negligible effect on the air pressure drop.
  • the bleed water that was used to control the main sump TDS was directed to the top of this media. Any water that left the bottom of the pads was measured and directed to drain.
  • the weight of the media can be monitored over time to measure the scale buildup and determine how long it may be able to be used before it will need to be replaced or cleaned.
  • the weight of the media can be monitored over time to measure the scale buildup and determine how long it may be able to be used before it will need to be replaced or cleaned.
  • After one month, slight scale could be seen, but with no blocking of the air passages of the media.
  • Estimation of the weight of scale that CELdek media can hold and the water bleed savings indicate that the media can provide an entire season's cooling (3-6 months) without replacement.
  • Media with higher scale holding content, or media produced from polymeric materials or other materials that may be cleaned, can also be used.
  • the bled water was not uniformly distributed to the top of the auxiliary (mineral removal) media.
  • the bleed water distribution to the top of the de-watering media is made as uniform as possible so that flow across the face is even and no channeling occurs. Channeling of the water flow allows excess flow to leave as system bleed in the high flow areas, which is detrimental to system performance.
  • the 2" cellulose based CELdek media can be replaced by 3" deep GLASdek 7060 glass fiber based media acting as the MRM.
  • the GLASdek product has a higher wicking and water holding capacity. This effectively slows the flow of water down the MRM face and also provides a certain degree of side-to-side and front-to-back wicking to even the water flow out.
  • the mineral removal media is formed as a matrix of small modular media sections 340-1, as shown in Figure 2.
  • the modular media sections 340-1 are preferable mounted with a mechanism that allows them to be easily interchangeable, such as frame 341. As the media depth is small, the strength of the media to resist the force of airflow is low. Smaller, modularized sections in simple frames will allow for complete media support and provide for easy interchangeability. Additionally, by modularizing the media face, only those sections with the highest scale content would need replacing, reducing ongoing costs. This is important as it is expected that the upper media will scale more readily and thus need replacing more frequently.
  • the mineral removal media can be added to the existing primary evaporative cooler inlet face. This, of course, creates added pressure drop and with it extra operating costs.
  • the evaporative performance of the de-watering media can be included in the system performance, thus reducing the performance need on the primary evaporative surface. In such a manner the system could be designed with no substantial increase in pressure drop while increasing the CoC, thus reducing the water usage by a large factor.
  • One method of control involves sensing the location of a wet to dry line on the mineral removal media. Ideally, the media should be wet nearly to its lower edge, with the lowest portion dry. The wetness of the media can be determined most easily by a sensor 350 that either measures the temperature of the media, directly or optically, or measures the temperature of the air exiting the media.
  • Another approach to control is to size the mineral removal media efficiency above that required by the analysis of the suitable CoC for the given water quality.
  • Bleed water can then be fed to the mineral removal media at a rate that just allows for the bleed water to reach the exiting edge of the media.
  • the presence of water can be monitored by the temperature method outlined above or by the use of a water presence detection system. As the efficiency of the mineral removal media was oversized, more bleed water will have been taken from the main sump than was necessary, and the sump mineral level will be below the specified maximum content.
  • some evaporative cooling systems do not include a sump and recirculation pump.
  • any excess water that is not evaporated in the process is directed to drain.
  • These "once-through" systems intentionally apply excess water so that the minerals in the water do not exceed a threshold which will allow for scale formation as the water evaporates in the process.
  • the water leaving the system is of nearly saturated mineral content and of small volume.
  • the excess water which leaves the system with high mineral content can be utilized in the same manner as the bleed water in the examples above. It can be used to treat the mineral removal media to reduce or eliminate its volume in the same fashion as the bleed water described in the recirculated water example. Therefore, the term “bleeding" can be used to connote both bleeding a portion of cooling fluid recirculating through a primary cooling unit as well as collecting the remaining "once-through” cooling fluid and supplying the collected fluid to the secondary cooling unit.
  • the auxiliary cooling system of the present invention is not exclusively for use with direct and indirect evaporative coolers. Any system that creates bleed or waste fluid and that could benefit from utilizing that fluid in a preconditioning process can be included within the scope of the invention. It should be noted that in indirect evaporative systems, the heat load and thus the primary evaporation rate is not necessarily contingent on the ambient conditions of the air into which the water is being evaporated. In these systems, heat is being transferred from a heat load within the exchanger to a second air stream, the scavenger air stream.

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Un système de refroidissement par évaporation comprend : une unité de refroidissement primaire qui utilise un fluide de refroidissement s'écoulant à travers un milieu d'échange de chaleur primaire pour refroidir l'air d'alimentation s'écoulant au-delà du milieu d'échange de chaleur primaire ; une conduite de purge ; et une unité de refroidissement secondaire disposée en amont de l'unité de refroidissement primaire par rapport à une direction d'écoulement de l'air d'alimentation. L'unité de refroidissement primaire comprend : une conduite d'alimentation permettant l'alimentation en fluide de refroidissement du milieu d'échange de chaleur primaire ; un réservoir permettant la collecte du fluide de refroidissement fourni au milieu d'échange de chaleur primaire ; et une pompe permettant la recirculation du fluide de refroidissement collecté dans le réservoir en retour vers la conduite d'alimentation. La conduite de purge purge une partie du fluide de refroidissement en recirculation à partir de l'unité de refroidissement primaire. L'unité de refroidissement secondaire comprend un milieu d'échange de chaleur secondaire qui reçoit le fluide de refroidissement purgé depuis l'unité de refroidissement primaire à travers la conduite de purge.
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