Tesla turbine boundary layer sheartorque bladeless test rig. Tesla turbine giving its property to rotate at higher speed and pelton wheel being able to increase the torque transmitted by the rotor. Tesla turbine design and the theory of operation of an. That invention was a turbine, known today as the tesla turbine, the boundary layer turbine or the flatdisk turbine. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centrifugal flow turbine expander patented by nikola tesla in 19. In operation, a tesla turbine is simply a turbomachine which is reasonably efficient at a fairly high rotational speed, dependent on several factors, including gap between the discs and disc diameter, but not too efficient to get moving. This is a new tesla turbine design that produces more energy at lower rpms than the original design. Design and analysis of prototype tesla turbine for power generation applications. The tesla turbine is simple in structure and is easy to be manufactured. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. I have spent alot of time and effort trying to make this easy to understand and easy for anyone out there to do. Tesla s pumps and motors were unique in that they only used discs, and took adv. Nikola teslas revolutionary turbine still lies untouched.
Teslas geothermal solution 3 shear torque turbine fundamentally, the turbine uses the basic flat, parallel disc design of tesla and then incorporates a new, full admission nozzle with integral flow guides and a new regenerator concept which optimizes the pressure drop across the working surfaces and conditions the exhausting fluid to. Tesla turbine technicals bearing mechanical gas turbine. The design includes an airfoil shaped spacer near the perimeter of the disk to induce lift and add further torque to the rotating shaft fuller, 2010. Combine this with a solar collector and have both charge a quick. We currently have two turbine models for sale the standard tesla turbine kit and our new pumping and multi stage tesla turbine kit which is the only type of its kind available to buy worldwide, both of which can also be upgraded to electricity generating models, the details of all model types can be found below for your consideration. A micro tesla turbine for power generation from low pressure heads and evaporation driven flows vedavalli g. Interestingly, using the word turbine to describe tesla s invention seems a bit misleading. What you should be aware of with wind turbine magnetic. Design purpose the remainder of this paper documents a preliminary design of a tesla type turbine to be applied in a rural. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Always more to comefree anonymous pdf downloads for your tabletwebsites disappear every day and with them much valuable information. This, more than anything, prevented the tesla turbine from becoming more widely used.
If you are a diehard fan of science and technology just like me. Some argued that rices model deviated from tesla s exact specifications. Tesla turbine, how to make your own tesla turbine for. Be it known that i, n ikola t esla, a citizen of the united states, residing at new york, in the county and state of new york, have invented certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines and turbines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The flat plates use the principles of adhesion and viscosity in order to turn the shaft.
The bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. As far as comparing efficiency, i have no idea how efficient a tesla turbine is, but if you want a comparison. Ive been inspired by johnnyq90, so a massive thanks to him for publishing his videos and answering my questions. On october 8th, 2014 andrea rossi publicly released his third party independent report of his hot cat lenr cold fusion reactor, which ran nonstop for. The tesla turbine has a set of smooth disks fitted with nozzles that send out a. This is video 1 in a series of videos which will show how to build your own tesla turbine for fun and experimentation. The tesla turbine is a nonconventional promising technology that is yet to be fully researched and optimized.
If you want a small turbine for backyard use, you are out of luck. Treatment of a bladeless turbine designed by nikola tesla is given. A turbine, with discs of 92mm in diameter, central exhaust, plenum. A separate data acquisition pad with a builtin amplifier was used to collect. Tesla turbine torque modeling for construction of a dynamometer and turbine. Tesla turbine is designed as a prototype towards experimental verification of effectiveness and speed measure. You can also use a garden hose as in the demo video to see how easy it is to make the cds spin. Study and design of bladeless tesla turbine 883 also be achieved with protuberances which are raised in the plates by blows or pressure. This project is to design and fabricate the tesla turbine with gas as working fluid and looking at the potential of installation a tesla turbine onto the car in order to utilize those energy which. A tesla turbine seemed like the most interesting option, and this is the build.
Though many of teslas other inventions, like the alternating current induction motor and power transmission systems, remain prominent in society, the tesla turbine has languished in obscurity for nearly a century. Modular design, combine it with other vortex and solar panels working on. Abstract of the invention an improved turbine using the edge of the blades of the working surface instead of the blades face, and further utilizing both expansion blades and adhesion discs. Design and order your tesla model 3, the car of the future. Tesla s new engine was a bladeless turbine, which would still use a fluid as the vehicle of energy, but would be much more efficient in converting the fluid energy into motion. The tesla turbine concept has recently been adapted to wind turbines. The turbine is supplied on a aluminium base for display and demonstration purposes connected using two m6 hex cap screws. We are also including 2 color photos of 2 different size tesla turbine motors made by 2 of our customers constructed in a machine shop. Make a tesla turbine blade out of compact disks or dvd for free energy devices.
Complete optimization of tesla turbine performance is beyond the scope of this paper. The tesla turbine is one of the great unknown creations of nikola tesla, the famed inventor of the early 20th century. Our tesla turbine design and associated other innovations represent the ideal economical and efficient way to convert the ecat heat into electricity. If you do use the turbine for this function, use at your own risk. A single gas turbine will have thermal efficiency anywhere from 20% like that in a fighter jet up to about 65% for power generating turbines. Thats because most people think of a turbine as a shaft with blades like fan blades attached to it. It is not intended to be used for prolonged periods or to be permanently used. Each rotor consists of 25 disks 38inch thick by 18 inch diameter. Rices 2 analysis was among the first, and claims that turbines can be made up to 90% efficient. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19.
Sep 09, 2011 as a turbine the tesla turbine is terrible. Theory and performance of tesla turbines by vincent domenic. A tesla turbine has the disadvantage of having to rely on friction interaction between a smooth surface and a fluid. I have seen tesla fans try to make jet engines using the tesla turbines for. This page was last edited on 15 february 2019, at 03. Indeed, tesla claimed a turbine efficiency of 95 percent, far higher than other turbines of the time. This means more energy is delivered to the turbine. Nikola tesla was born an ethnic serb in the village smiljan, lika county, in the austrian empire present day croatia, on 10 july o. So all we can offer you at this time is the tesla turbine us patent. They use the boundary layer effect rather than fluid impinging on the blades.
Build a 15,000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. Tesla intended to use his turbine to propel aircraft, in geothermal power plants, in cars instead of pistons, for vacuum pumps, for compressing air and liquifying gases. In small scale applications, the tesla turbine offers an attractive option for the organic expander if an efficient design can be achieved. Something perhaps, that a competent diy person could tackle for themselves. Flow characteristics of multichannel tesla turbines. Maybe you get some tesla turbine effects over the outer part of the disks, but from there inwards the gas is probably not doing anything to. Our tesla turbine design represents the ideal, economical and efficient way to convert the ecat thermal heat into electricity. May 07, 2010 the bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. How to build a windmill to generate your own electricity.
After the experiment the tesla turbine will be used as an educational instrument. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine. You can build this working tesla turbine for experimentation using compressed air or steam. Build a wind turbine with pvc windmill blades how to. You can also convert a pressure cooker into a steam broiler to produce steam to run your tesla turbine. Wind turbines are a machine that can transform the kinetic energy found in wind and convert it. For the data acquisition unit mount, two pieces of steel were cut to about 5 inches in. This weak friction does not create very high torque, which makes a tesla turbine useless for any application that requires that high torque such as power generation.
In the tesla turbine, air, steam, oil, or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. The lowtech turbine, by nikola tesla who also loved cheap, and was shut down and marginalized for wanting to give the world low cost free energy, drawn from the quantum vacuum flux in the fabric of space time, which is well proven to contain abundance of energy. Though many of tesla s other inventions, like the alternating current induction motor and power transmission systems, remain prominent in society, the tesla turbine has languished in obscurity for nearly a century. It is simple in design and can be easy to construct from the us patent itself. Contrary to popular belief, he didnt invent the bladeless turbine, but he took the basic concept, first patented in europe in 1832, and made several improvements. The tesla turbine also makes a great steam engine motor to run a, ac or dc generator. Exploratory calculations with the model indicate that turbine efficiencies exceeding 75% can be achieved by designing for optimal ranges of the governing dimensionless parameters. The turbine design and generator mount allows for possibility of changing the generator or connecting to something else. The particularly good thing about tesla turbines is they are very easy to build.
At 9,000 revolutions per minute, with 125 pounds at the throttle and free exhaust, this turbine develops 200 horsepower. Design, construction and testing of a tesla turbine. Ive been inspired by johnnyq90, so a massive thanks to him for publishing his videos and answering my. While conventional turbines have been extensively researched and tested, tesla and boundary layer type turbines have not. The specialty of fuller wind turbine is it has only one rotating part, known as. Vortex bladeless is an alternative and innovative way to harness energy from wind, with different and exciting characteristics which makes it a revolution in wind power generation.
There are a few companies on the internet that can build these for you as well. The tesla turbine testing plant at the edison waterside station, new york. Naturally, the performance of tesla turbines has already been characterized by a number of researchers. The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator. By altering the blade pattern and the outer surface edges this design produces a higher. The target acquisition module consists of four ldrs light dependant. Both articles are about bladeless turbines but this one is mainly about gas turbines while tesla turbine is mainly about steam turbines. If you like this instructable please vote for it in the epilog challenge coming up. In order to operate the tesla turbine, simply attach an air or water hose to the inflow port and let air or water start flowing. Learn about lease, loan and cash payment options, warranties, electric vehicle incentives, gasoline savings and more. The steam enters at the periphery, and flows in spiral paths to exhaust at the center of the disks. Miscellaneous and new stuffnikola tesla part 03 of 03from spark. Nikola tesla patents tesla turbine tesla generator magnetic motor patent drawing canvas prints art prints patent prints new technology. Feb 11, 2015 this is a new tesla turbine design that produces more energy at lower rpms than the original design.
Tesla turbine technicals free ebook download as pdf file. Instead of using windpowered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the tesla inspired design consists of. But as well see in the next section, the theoretical efficiency of the tesla turbine has not been so easily realized in production models. Barriers to tesla turbine commercialization howstuffworks. We are looking for investors to join in with our tesla turbine experts, along with roger green of breakthrutechnologies, to produce the unique tesla turbine. Instead of using windpowered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the tesla inspired design consists of an. Unique tesla turbine design tesla on the tesla turbine such a machine is a thermodynamic transformer of an activity surpassing by far that of any other prime mover, it. This tesla cd turbine is based on the tesla turbine, which was invented by nikola tesla in the early 1900s. Master of arts mechanical engineering, may 2011, 80 pp. Design and operation of tesla turbo machine a state of. Man solves tesla s secret to amplifying power by nearly 5000% duration. The tesla turbine was patented by none other than nikola tesla in 19. In a previous issue, i discussed how electricity can be generated by steam at temperatures lower than the boiling point of water by using a vacuum system.
Check out this instructable that shows you how to build your own tesla turbine out of hard. Theoretical and experimental research performed on the tesla. The torsion of the spring is automatically shown by beams of light and mirrors and the horsepower is read off a scale. Millimeterscale, microelectromechanical systems gas. The tesla turbine is also known as the boundarylayer turbine, cohesiontype turbine, and prandtllayer turbine after ludwig prandtl because it uses the boundarylayer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. Boundary layer tesla turbine page stanford university. Thanks to him, we all have ac power that operates safely within our. His father, milutin tesla 18191879, was an eastern orthodox priest. Pdf design and analysis of prototype tesla turbine for. By altering the blade pattern and the outer surface edges this. As a result of this model work, a new tesla turbine of different dimensions was. More applications are yet to be studied and developed. Tesla turbine torque modeling for construction of a dynamometer. Anyway, this turbogen is very similar to the cd version and can be used to build the solar turbogenerator system at the new turbine workshop.
How efficient are teslabladeless turbines as reddit. Build a 15000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. Tesla electro magnetic motor patent print tesla art print. Organic rankine cycle orc system has been proven to be an effective method for the low grade energy utilization. Performance estimation of tesla turbine applied in small. Pdf development of tesla turbine for green energy applications. We are talking about water turbine so the materials, of which is the turbine going to made, cannot come under rust. The top half of casings is removed, showing two rotors. A tesla turbine is made of a set of parallel discs with nozzles, through which gas or. Many of the following books and papers are being dustedoff and reexamined in the light of politicised science and a general distrust. Nonetheless, it does provide some insight into the effects relative to rpm of two parameters on turbine operation, namely disc diameter, and disc spacing. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine raunak jung pandey 1, sanam pudasaini, saurav dhakal1, rangeet ballav uprety1, dr. So, applications can be somewhat limited in the tradi.
This diy mini tesla coil packs 380,000 volts of lightning. The main aspect of the tesla type turbine is that it can handle the fluid with the particulate and the contaminants and still give the desired output. This is a tesla turbine that i have just finished and i am running it on about psi and it is achieving speeds of about rpms. How to make a tesla turbine out of a cd wonderhowto. History of tesla turbines a tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. The same parametric trends in performance are compared to test data for a microscale tesla turbine with water as a working fluid.
Oct 19, 2016 nikola tesla is a man that invented many things, but he is most known for the alternating current electricity supply system. It introduces the operating principle of the tesla turbine, which was invented by engineer nikola tesla, a turbine. Hari prasad neopane1 1 department of mechanical engineering, kathmandu university, nepal abstract conventional turbines are mostly reaction and impulse type or both. In order to combine the effect, in between the tesla turbine discs the pelton bucket is introduced as shown in the fig. Featured in phoenix turbine builders club articles, this industrialquality turbine is great for learning principles of boundary layer turbines in the classroom or workshop. Design and fabrication of cmscale tesla turbines by vedavalli gomatam krishnan doctor of philosophy in electrical engineering and computer science university of california, berkeley professor michel martin maharbiz, chair this dissertation discusses the design and scaling characteristics of tesla or socalled. In this study, tesla turbine tt is introduced as a new candidate for substitution of. Obviously the tesla turbine and other innovations products can be sold on the open market and have.