Ceramic Tesla Turbine

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Ceramic tesla turbine.

A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. 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. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed.

In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. Apologies for the camera work. This test was done without preloading the bearings. 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.

Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited. The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted th.