By altering the blade pattern and the outer surface edges this design produces a higher. I was going to cut the same radial pattern from the disks in the side panels, but i decided that wasnt necessary after a trial run with just the. Instead of using windpowered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the tesla inspired design consists of. In the tesla turbine, air, steam, oil, or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. There is more information about the build at instructables. 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. 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. Boundary layer tesla turbine page stanford university. The tesla turbine is a simple device invented and patented by nikola tesla that uses flat plates instead of buckets or vanes on the rotors. Check out this instructable that shows you how to build your own tesla turbine out of hard. This article has been written by carmella tyrell for. There are a few companies on the internet that can build these for you as well.
Tesla turbine torque modeling for construction of a. Treatment of a bladeless turbine designed by nikola tesla is given. Each rotor consists of 25 disks 38inch thick by 18 inch diameter. The top half of casings is removed, showing two rotors. 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.
This is a small tesla turbine i designed while here at boston university. Learning how to build a working model can help you save on your current energy bills and also help you survive crisis. With disks close enough, there is no fundamental reason for its torque to be worse than a good bladed turbine. Assembly tesla turbine bladeless disk turbine page 4 of 7. Build a 15000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters.
In the process, several of the values have a calibration applied. Design and develop a compact, portable tesla turbine for use as a small scale electrical power. Barriers to tesla turbine commercialization howstuffworks. The particularly good thing about tesla turbines is they are very easy to build. Tesla was denied a patent for a transmission he designed using his pump and turbine. After this model was created, i built the turbine from the ground up, using old hard drive discs as the runners within the turbine. The tesla turbine does away with the blades and uses a series of disks instead. Complete optimization of tesla turbine performance is beyond the scope of this paper. To avoid supports between shaft plates it is recommended to print shaft horizontally on raft and use support for thin shaft end only. Our tesla turbine design represents the ideal, economical and efficient way to convert the ecat thermal heat into electricity. The tesla turbine is abandoned except in some niches because of its bad efficiency.
Due to the centrifugal forces caused by the rotating discs, water will spread on the entire surface of the tesla discs which is a quite large surface. 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. Design, construction and testing of a tesla turbine. It is not intended to be used for prolonged periods or to be permanently used. Hi all after many years of building pulsejets and admiring gas turbines an whilst waiting for materials for the phoenix project to arrive, ive started my first home built gas turbine project. The tesla turbine is a fairly simple, emp proof device that can generate power in just about any circumstance. The size and number of the disks can vary based on factors related to a particular application. This diy mini tesla coil packs 380,000 volts of lightning how to.
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. Previous work tesla turbine was patented by nikola tesla in 1903. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19. The computeraided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and owned by third party users. Zuschauer prototypen tesla turbine mit integriertem generator. 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. This, more than anything, prevented the tesla turbine from becoming more widely used. Virtually silent, fully enclosed, bladeless wind turbines on the way. Tesla generator magnetic generator tesla inventions system clean electrical projects energy projects magnetic field alternative energy renewable energy free energy generator in pakistan by wasif kahloon,free energy gernator design any problem, issue and any question comment,write under the video i will reply. Design and order your tesla model 3, the car of the future. 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 in the practical application of mechanical power, based on the use of fluids as the vehicle of.
The tesla turbine also makes a great steam engine motor to run a, ac or dc generator. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine. The tesla turbine testing plant at the edison waterside station, new york. Build your own tesla turbine out of hard drive platters. You can also convert a pressure cooker into a steam broiler to produce steam to run your tesla turbine. 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. This is video 1 in a series of videos which will show how to build your own tesla turbine for fun and experimentation. Build a wind turbine with pvc windmill blades how to. This tesla cd turbine is based on the tesla turbine, which was invented by nikola tesla in the early 1900s. This is part 1 out of three of the mk2 micro tesla building series.
The tesla turbine is a nonconventional promising technology that is yet to be fully researched and optimized. Each cad and any associated text, image or data is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with any company, organization or realworld item, product, or good it may purport to portray. Its unusual, but ive built sucessfull air powered tesla s before. Tesla turbine technicals bearing mechanical gas turbine. Teslatype turbine, method for operating a teslatype turbine, apparatus for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy, method for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy and method for converting thermal energy into electrical energy us10594191b2 en 20170327. The high energy gasses like high pressure gas and high velocity gas can be useful if it is able to convert to. Yet power plants use this very design to pump fly ash through a 21 stage vacumn system, 14 inch dia. Pdf optimization of tesla turbine using computational. Theory and performance of tesla turbines by vincent domenic. A tesla turbine is made of a set of parallel discs with nozzles, through which gas or.
Maybe you get some tesla turbine effects over the outer part of the disks, but. This is a new tesla turbine design that produces more energy at lower rpms than the original design. The tesla turbine concept has recently been adapted to wind turbines. Virtually silent, fully enclosed, bladeless wind turbines. The development of tesla turbine is carried out to determine disc size, disk gap and number of disc base on theoretical calculation of tesla turbine. Design and fabrication of cmscale tesla turbines spotlight. To assemble it you need one 624zz bearing 4mm x mm x 5mm and 3x m3x8. Please click on the machinist layout file to get the dimensions of this part. Why do some people say that tesla turbines dont work.
The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator. As far as comparing efficiency, i have no idea how efficient a tesla turbine is, but if you want a comparison. 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. Thus a series of experiments were run to determine stall torque and. In example, the turbine of tesla team 1 has larger blades so it can maybe provide more torque, though we didnt test this. Many other tesla turbines that ive seen online have larger ventilation holes in the sides. While conventional turbines have been extensively researched and tested, tesla and boundary layer type turbines have not. Diy tesla turbine from a hard disk the green optimistic. The bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit.
The project comes with a pdf and dwg file of the cad information you need to build. With exception to the outer plexi casing which was done with a 3 axis cnc, everything else was fabricated by hand with a mill and a lathe. Hard drive platter tesla turbine hacked gadgets diy. In the tesla turbine, air, steam, oil, or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a. Learn about lease, loan and cash payment options, warranties, electric vehicle incentives, gasoline savings and more. Build a 15,000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. Tesla turbine, how to make your own tesla turbine for. In order to construct a dynamometer, thermodynamic flow apparatus and future turbines, we modeled the tesla turbine using theoretical calculations and preliminary experiments.
Tesla turbine technicals free ebook download as pdf file. On the altmann combustionforce turbine water is applied to the center of the rotating discs of the tesla compressor i. If you have one more dead hard drive left after building the top five dead hard drive projects give the hard drive platter tesla turbine a try. More applications are yet to be studied and developed. In tesla turbines, the fluid profile and the length of the fluid path inside the rotor control the pressure drop and momentum transfer. The turbine will be designed for these main functions. Tesla turbines and pico hydro several aspects of the tesla turbine cater well to pico hydro applications. If you like this instructable please vote for it in the epilog challenge coming up. These turbines gave less power given the circumstances. Tesla s patent paperwork doesnt define a specific number, but uses a more general description, saying that the rotor should contain a plurality of disks with a. The frontend of the software shown in figure 53 provides an interface through which the file name. Roberto lisker, udo hellwig, franz xaver wildenauer.
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