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.

A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. 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. The bearings were damaged as a.

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. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. This test was done without preloading the bearings.

Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around. Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine. Apologies for the camera work. 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.