Ceramic Tesla Turbine

This test was done without preloading the bearings.

Ceramic tesla turbine.

A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. 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 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. Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited.

Apologies for the camera work. The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. The bearings were damaged as a.

The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted th. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england. 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.