Ceramic Tesla Turbine

Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited.

Ceramic tesla turbine.

Apologies for the camera work. Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine. In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. This test was done without preloading the bearings.

The bearings were damaged as a. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. 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. Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around.

It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. 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.