Ceramic Tesla Turbine

It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england.

Ceramic tesla 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. Apologies for the camera work. The bearings were damaged as a. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters.

The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. This test was done without preloading the bearings. The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000.

Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited. Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around. 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. In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks.