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.

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

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

The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. 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. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters.