Ceramic Tesla Turbine

In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks.

Ceramic tesla turbine. The bearings were damaged as a. The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted th. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. Apologies for the camera work.

I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. This test was done without preloading the bearings. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited.

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. The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters.