Ceramic Tesla Turbine

Apologies for the camera work.

Ceramic tesla 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. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. This test was done without preloading the bearings.

The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. 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.

The bearings were damaged as a. In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england.