Ceramic Tesla Turbine

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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The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. 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.

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. Apologies for the camera work. This test was done without preloading the bearings.

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 fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted th. 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.