Turbo Machine Cooling via Shortest Path Airflow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional turbo machines have complex structures that increase costs, reduce durability and efficiency, and complicate maintenance due to inefficient cooling methods, despite efforts to enhance cooling performance.
Innovation Solution
A high-speed turbo machine design featuring a suction air-cooling method with a shortest path cooling structure system, including specific air intake and exhaust ports, a cooling fan assembly, and a shortest-path generator to minimize air flow path and maximize cooling efficiency by reducing contact time between the air compressor and external air.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If conventional cooling methods are used, then cooling performance is insufficient, but structure becomes complex and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cooling function with the existing air compressor housing structure. The housing serves dual purposes: containing the air compressor and providing cooling pathways. This integration eliminates the need for separate cooling components, achieving effective cooling while maintaining simple structure and low cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The air compressor housing is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: structural containment, heat dissipation, and airflow management. By making the housing multi-functional, the patent avoids adding separate cooling components, thus improving cooling performance without increasing structural complexity.
2Temperature
If complex cooling design changes are implemented, then cooling efficiency improves, but durability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating cooling pathways directly into the housing structure rather than adding separate cooling components, the patent reduces the number of parts that could fail. This merger maintains durability while achieving improved cooling efficiency through optimized airflow paths within the existing structure.
3Temperature
If complex cooling structures are added, then cooling performance improves, but maintenance difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling function is merged into the housing structure, eliminating separate cooling components that would require specialized maintenance. This integration simplifies maintenance procedures while maintaining effective cooling performance, as the housing structure itself manages heat dissipation without additional complex subsystems.
4Temperature
If more cooling components are added, then cooling performance improves, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cooling function into the existing housing structure, eliminating the need for separate cooling components. This integration reduces manufacturing costs by using existing structural elements for dual purposes while still achieving effective cooling performance through optimized airflow pathways.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing is designed as a multi-functional component that provides both structural containment and cooling functions. This universality reduces the total number of parts needed, lowering manufacturing costs while maintaining effective cooling performance through the housing's integrated cooling pathways.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The design simplifies the turbo machine structure, enhances cooling efficiency, and improves durability and maintainability by optimizing air flow through a shortest path, thereby reducing manufacturing costs and increasing lifespan.
Implementation Method 1
a cooling fan assembly (330) coupled to a side of the air compressor, rotating with rotation of the air compressor at the same speed, and suctioning and discharging outside the internal air of the turbo machine casing and the external air suctioned through the cooling air intake port to cool the air compressor
Implementation Method 2
a shortest path cooling structure system disposed at a side of the turbo machine casing and cooling the air compressor disposed in the turbo machine casing through a shortest path
Implementation Method 3
the air compressor disposed and coupled in the turbo machine casing, suctioning external air into the turbo machine casing, and compressing the external air suctioned in the turbo machine casing
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AI summary
Disclosed is a high-speed turbo machine enabling cooling thermal equilibrium and, more particularly, to a high-speed turbo machine enabling cooling thermal equilibrium, the high-speed turbo machine maximizing the cooling efficiency thereof by compressing and discharging external air suctioned therein, cooling an air compressor in a suction air-cooling method, decreasing a flow path of air for cooling the inside of the turbo machine and the air compressor, and optimizing the flow path.Accordingly, the present invention uses the suction air-cooling method and guides the flow of air for cooling the turbo machine through a specific path, so that it maximizes the efficiency and durability of the turbo machine, the cost reduction owing to the structural simplification of the turbo machine, and the easiness of maintenance by preventing an increase in temperature of the inside of the turbomachine casing (100) and the air compressor (200).