Turbo compressor having separate cooling air channel

Abstract

Provided is a turbo compressor for compressing a gas such as air and supplying the compressed gas to outside, the turbo compressor including a compression unit including a compression gas inlet for sucking the gas, an impeller for compressing the gas sucked through the compression gas inlet, a compression gas outlet for discharging the gas compressed by the impeller, and a compression gas channel connected from the compression gas inlet to the compression gas outlet, a motor including a rotary shaft having a front end coupled to the impeller, to rotate the impeller, a housing having a motor accommodation space to accommodate the motor, and a cooling gas channel passing through the motor accommodation space and enabling circulation of a cooling gas contained therein, wherein the compression gas channel is spatially separate from the cooling gas channel and thus the gas in the compression gas channel does not permeate into the cooling gas channel. According to the present invention, the motor may be efficiently cooled without pressure loss of the compression unit.

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