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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1991
Patricia T Thomas, North Fort Myers, FL (US);
Munters Corporation, Fort Myers, FL (US);
Abstract
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.