Mee Industries in the News

October 29, 2010

Peak Capacity Enhancement at Northern States Power's Wheaton and French Island Stations Through Inlet Fogging

Inlet fogging is a controlled method of augmenting turbine power generation by recovering part of the power loss at higher temperatures by cooling the inlet air. The inlet air is cooled by a very fine water spray using a series of very small nozzles. The water absorbs heat as it evaporates, thus cooling the inlet air and increasing its density. Download

September/October 2010

Allowing Fogging On 7fa - Suppliers Carve Out Applications In F-Class Systems Despite Early Negative Publicity

A lot has changed since that spring day in 1988 when Jim Nolan and Vernon Twombley fired up the world's first turbine inlet fogging system at the American Atlas Cogeneration plant in Rifle, Colorado. Fogging is now a standard method of cooling down the air and increasing air mass flow in order to improve efficiency and boost output. Download

High Pressure Fog System: Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing

During hot weather, a turbine produces up to twenty percent less power than in winter. Download

February 24, 2005

Do It Right The First Time. High-pressure Fogging: The Cost-effective Gas Turbine Inlet Air Cooling Alternative

High-pressure fogging represents a significant advance in evaporative cooling technology. Instead of a convoluted media arrangement as in standard evaporative coolers, fog systems create a large evaporative surface area by atomizing the supply water into billions of super-small spherical droplets. Download

May/June 2010

Inlet Cooling Options, Selecting The Right Technology For A Specific Application

As we come up the evolutionary line, turbines have become more sensitive to inlet air temperature, thus there is more bang for your chilling buck. And aeroderivatives are the most sensitive - John Andrepont, President of Cool Solutions Download

August 2011

Inlet Fogging: Doing it Right

Droplet Size is Important - Fogging nozzles produce billions of droplets per second. Since evaporation only occurs at the water/air interface, the rate at which a droplet evaporates is a function of its volume-to-surface-area ratio. Surface tension causes fog droplets to become spherical in shape. The surface area of a sphere increases as a square of the diameter, but the volume increases as a cube of the diameter. Download

Rb211 Package At Gulf Petroleum Company, Evaluation of a MeeFog system for an Industrial Trent power generation package

MEE Industries with 7 Stages of cooling are controlled by an onboard PLC which calculates the potential Wet Bulb depression given inputs of ambient Humidity and Temperature. Download

January 8, 2001

Out of the Fog, Mee Industries' Patented Water Compression System Is Finding New Life In Theme Parks, ...

The company's technology, which varies somewhat by application, involves pumps that compress water up to 3,000 pounds per square inch before forcing it through stainless steel nozzles that atomize it into super fine droplets less than 10 microns thick. That's less than one-tenth the diameter of a single strand of human hair. Download

Adiabatic Humidification Put To The Test

NSF International is in the business of writing standards for and certifying a wide range of products and consumer goods, so consistency and continuity are essential to protecting a reputation. When the Michigan company needed a humidification retrofit, it needed a system to maintain testing conditions; what it got saved operating expenses and reduced labor as well. See how the project performed and learn some in's and out's of adiabatic design and installation along the way. Download

September 2010

Fog-Humidification Units Play Major Role in Facility's Cooling-System Improvements Cut annual maintenance, energy costs by $250,000

"The MeeFog humidification system is not complicated, but it works great," Crouch said. "Engineers were even able to install the spray racks in the air handlers while they were running, so there was no interruption of our operations." Download

Fog Humidification: Fact and Retrofits

Ensuring adequate humidity is seen increasingly as another way to maintain worker productivity. The author examines one type of humidification system, how it should be engineered for optimum efficiency, and some of the challenges involved with incorporating it into an existing hvac system. Download

August 2001

Hospital's Fog System: More Than A Mist Opportunity

Humidification a matter of comfort, it is also a key factor in maintaining health. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the United States National Institute of Health, "Low humidity conditions (which typically occur in the winter months) dry out the nasal and respiratory passages. Low humidity may be associated with an increased susceptibility to upper respiratory infections." Download

Banking on Fog

With a history that now spans more than 35 years, artificial fog systems have found their way into a fascinating range of both practical and aesthetic applications. Here, John Mee - son of the man credited with creating the first fog system - relates the history of the technology, discusses how it works and examines the characteristics that make it a natural for a broad range of uses, including many associated with watershapes and landscapes. Download