Munters Corporation

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Munters Ab

Patricia T Thomas

Bertil Lundin

Geoffrey Bowers

Richard S Pautz

An improved animal trough includes an outer wall, an inner wall, a receptacle configured to receive a first fluid, and a housing separated from the receptacle. The receptacle is substantially smooth in order to prevent or discourage the growth of algae or the buildup or dirt and grime. The housing may include a ballast compartment configured to receive a second fluid and the trough may include a heating element configured to heat both the first and second fluid. The trough may also include a sieve configured to remove debris from the receptacle.

Animal trough

An air treatment unit for treatment of an air stream, including a pad having a multitude of narrow air-flow channels, the walls of which are formed by corrugated sheets of a stiff material, the sheets being positioned and fixed generally in parallel planes next to each other in such a way that, as seen from an inlet side of the pad to an outlet side thereof, the channels formed by the corrugations of any two sheets located next to each other extend in two different directions the vertical plane of the respective sheet. At least in a central region of the pad, all sheets are positioned obliquely sideways, whereby all channels extend obliquely sideways relative to inlet and outlet surfaces of the pad.

Air treatment unit

An air handling system for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems to provide a variable air flow between an air treatment section and an air bypass section includes selectively sliding panels to vary the air flow between the air treatment section and the bypass section. Positioning of the panels can direct the flow of incoming air to be conditioned from all incoming air flowing through the air treatment section to all incoming air flowing through the bypass section and a mixture of incoming air flowing through the air treatment section and the bypass section.

Air handling system

A gas-liquid contact body for use in a gas-liquid contact apparatus is disclosed which is formed of a plurality of facially opposed corrugated sheets with the corrugations in alternate sheets being disposed in parallel to form a plurality of criss-crossing channels for gas and liquid. The contact body has an air inlet side including an air inlet portion which is coated with a water-impermeable hydrophilic material containing an algicide.

Algae resistant edge coating

An improved contact body for use in a liquid gas contact apparatus formed of first and second sets of corrugated sheet material arranged with the sheets of the first set disposed alternately with the sheets of the second set. The corrugations of the sheets define passageways which penetrate the contact body from edge to edge with both vertical and horizontal components of direction. The passageways are simultaneously passed by a flow of gas in one direction and liquid in the other direction in either counterflow or cross-flow in the contact apparatus. 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 15.degree. to 80.degree.. 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 of the first set of sheets have a smaller amplitude dimension than the corrugations of the second set of sheets. Corrugations in the first set of sheets are inclined upwardly in the direction of gas flow and the corrugations in the second set of sheets are inclined downwardly in the direction of gas flow whereby undesirable lateral displacement of the liquid stream caused by the gas flow is counteracted and the liquid is distributed uniformly and evenly over the sheets. An improved efficiency is also achieved with little or no increase in pressure drop as compared to contact bodies having both corrugated sheets of the larger amplitude.

Alternating sheet evaporative cooling pad

A gas and liquid contact apparatus in which gas and liquid flow in cross-flow relationship to one another is disclosed. The apparatus includes a contact body formed of a plurality of sheets of corrugated material having first and second opposed edges with corrugations formed in the sheets extending at an angle to the edges and abutting each other at points in adjacent sheets to form through-passing channels for gas and liquid. The first and second edges of the sheets define gas inlet and outlet edges in the contact body. The gas inlet edge has a plurality of rows of generally channel-shaped notches formed therein so that liquid flowing through the contact body will agglomerate at the notches. The agglomerated liquid will flow downwardly along the gas inlet edge of the contact body to clean the sheet at that gas inlet edge. A collection trough is located along one of the rows and includes a flange extending into one row of notches to intercept contaminated water along the inlet edge and remove it from the system.

Apparatus for concentrating bleed-off water for evaporating coolers

A gas and liquid contact body for use in a gas and liquid contact apparatus in which gas and liquid flow in cross flow relationship to one another is disclosed. The contact body is formed of a plurality of sheets of corrugated material having first and second opposed edges with corrugations formed in the sheets extending at an angle to the edges and abutting each other at points in adjacent sheets to form through-passing channels for gas and liquid. The first and second edges of the sheets define gas inlet and outlet edges in the contact body. Either the gas inlet edge or the gas outlet edge, or both, have a plurality of generally channel shaped notches formed therein so that liquid flowing through the contact body will agglomerate at the notches. The agglomerated liquid will flow downwardly along the gas inlet edge of the contact body to clean the sheet at that gas inlet edge.

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North Fort Myers, FL, United States of America

Patricia T Thomas