The grid fill is the result of an extensive optimization of the lath width, the blockage area ratio and the lath layout;
The water droplets, splashing on a well drained lath, break in a large number of very small droplets, inducing large heat exchange surface. Blockage area ratio and lozenge layout is the optimized compromise between the pressure drop and the probability of large droplets to hit the laths.
PP Golden Splashed Grid Fill For Cross Flow Cooling Towers
Cooling Tower Film types fills have been popular with the Cooling Tower Industry as a result of their efficiency of not only handling large quantities of water but also the overall tower efficiency. However in the case of heavily contaminated water, film type fills are susceptible to accumulating deposits and often make way for the use of grid type fills for effective water cooling. The forgiving nature of grid fills towards 'dirty' water and imperfect water distribution is offset by the need to have larger towers and thus higher capital costs as well as pumping heads.
Cooling Tower Grid Fills work on the principle of causing the flowing water to fall through a grid of splash bars/grids' causing the water droplets to break up and increasing the contact time between water and air. As the falling water encounters multiple layers of these grid fills, the droplets keep dividing into smaller sizes thereby increasing the heat transfer and thus cool the water.