Introduction: What is Cooling Tower Drift?
As cooling air discharges through an induced draft cooling tower, high velocity air currents entrain circulating water droplets. This unevaporated droplet carryover is known as drift loss. Drift wastes chemical-treated water, causes localized building corrosion, and poses health hazards by aerosolizing bacteria such as Legionella pneumophila.
1. Working Principle of Cellular Drift Eliminators
Modern cellular drift eliminators force air through multi-directional chevron channels. Inertia causes heavier water droplets to impact curved blade walls, coalescing into larger drops that drain back into the tower basin, allowing clean saturated air to exit freely.
2. Drift Loss Benchmarks
High-efficiency PVC drift eliminators reduce drift loss from 0.1% – 0.2% down to less than 0.005% of total circulation flow rate, saving thousands of liters of treated make-up water daily.
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