Ceramic Tesla Turbine

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Ceramic tesla turbine.

The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. The tesla turbine efficiency has increase it now has ceramic bearings and it is now close loop which makes it ideal for organic rankine cycle systems. Apologies for the camera work. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913.

Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. This test was done without preloading the bearings. Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine.

It is referred to as a bladeless turbine the tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine cohesion type turbine and prandtl layer turbine after ludwig prandtl because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around. The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted th.