Ceramic Tesla Turbine

Apologies for the camera work.

Ceramic tesla turbine.

The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. The bearings were damaged as a. Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around. 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.

This test was done without preloading the bearings. Once again this turbine eagerly is awaited. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england.

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. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913.