What role have eliminator in cooling tower?

Question

this means use in refinery.

Answer 1

Your question should be :

What is the role of drift eliminator in cooling tower?

*Drift is water lost from cooling towers as liquid droplets are entrained in the exhaust air. The drift loss is independent of the water lost by evaporation. The drift loss may be expressed in units of lb/hr or percentage of circulating water flow. Drift eliminators are used to control this drift loss from the tower.



Drift Eliminators can solve some of the most common problems associated with drift loss:

    * Corrosion problems on surrounding piping, equipment, and electrical components

    * Short circuiting resulting in failure of electrical systems

    * Icing of public roads, parking lots, and fields downwind of the tower

    * Emission of chemicals to the atmosphere .

Answer 2

Hi,

I believe you are asking about drift eliminators. These are used to recover the drift losses otherwise the makeup water flow in a cooling tower will increase and you know cooling water is an expensive utility in process industries.

Hope this helped.