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Cooling Tower Drift eliminators and  drift eliminators are created to pull out droplets of water from the air and lower the loss of processed water inside the cooling tower. Drift eliminators cause the water droplets and air to change direction suddenly. This change of direction causes the air to become separated from the water and put back inside the cooling tower. Drift eliminators limit or eliminate the water coming from the tower’s exhaust emissions.

Cooling Tower Product’s drift eliminators reach maximum drift removal in both cross-flow and counter-flow cooling tower applications.

Eliminators do this by making the droplets of water alter their cores and lose speed on the walls of the blade and then descend back into the cooling tower. Drift eliminators when ran effectively will keep float losses less than .001% of the water re-flowing rate.

In every cooling tower there is a loss of water to the environment due to the evaporative cooling process. This evaporation is usually in the form of pure water vapour and presents no harm to the environment.

Drift, however, is the undesirable loss of liquid water to the environment via small droplets that become entrained in the leaving air stream. There, water droplets carry with them chemicals and minerals, thus impacting the surrounding environment.

Drift eliminators are designed to capture large water droplets caught in the cooling tower air stream. The eliminators prevent the water droplets and mist from escaping the cooling tower. Eliminators do this by causing the droplets to change direction and lose velocity at impact on the blade walls and fall back into the tower. Efficient drift eliminators will keep drift losses to less than .001% of the re-circulating water flow rate.