CL-100 Cellular Inlet Louvers


CL-100 Cellular Inlet Louvers improve air flow into the cooling tower, prevent debris from entering, eliminate water splash-out (which can cause icing, near-site water damage, and costly water and water treatment chemical loss), restrict the amount of sunlight into the cooling tower (to impede algae growth), reduce noise from the tower, and improve the tower's appearance.

Applications
Brentwood's CL-100 Cellular Inlet Louvers replace conventional cement asbestos and fiberglass blade-type inlet louvers in a wide variety of new and retrofit applications, including air inlets for both package and field-erected counterflow and straight-sided crossflow towers, fresh air make-up systems, air pollution control scrubbers, and VOC strippers.


Features and Benefits
• Constructed entirely of CTI Standard 136 PVC, for its durability, weather-resistance, and self-extinguishing fire characteristics
• Because of their cellular "baffle" design and black color, CL-100 modules significantly block sunlight (70:1 light reduction) that promotes algae growth on the interior surfaces of the cooling tower system. This reduces the cost of algae-removal chemicals and labor and allows the tower to operate more efficiently.
• The CL-100's baffle design also reduces noise leaving the tower through the louver modules by ≈3 decibels.

• Proprietary, engineered cellular baffling restricts splash-out, light, weather, and noise but still achieves very low pressure drop results.
• Convenient, pre-assembled modules are 1 ft (305 mm) wide, 2.5 inches (63.5 mm) deep, and available in lengths from 1 ft (305 mm) to 10 ft (3050 mm).
• To make installation easier and to allow easy access for cleaning and maintenance, the optional CL-100 Assembly houses multiple CL-100 modules in a single extruded PVC "frame" with mounting flanges available on 1, 2, or all 4 sides.

CL-100 Dimensions

Product Weights & Dimensions
SHEET
THICKNESS
SHEET
SPACING
DRY
WEIGHT
MODULE DIMENSIONS
Depth Width Lengths
.015 in
(.38 mm)
1 in
(25.4 mm)
.95 lbs/ft2
(4.6 kg/m2)
2.5 in
(63.5 mm)
12 in
(305 mm)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 ft
(305, 610, 914, 1219, 1524,
1829, 2438, and 3050 mm)


Pressure Drop Curve

Pressure Drop Curve: CL-100 Inlet Louver

Material
CL-100 Cellular Inlet Louvers are constructed of UV-stabliized PVC. This compound has outstanding resistance to weather exposure and is nearly impervious to chemical degradation by alkali, acids, greases, fats, oils, and biological attack. It also has an excellent fire rating due to its self-extinguishing characteristics, and meets or exceeds Cooling Tower Institute Standard 136.

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