Interestingly, using the word turbine to describe teslas invention seems a bit misleading. Secondary power generation, on relatively low pressure gasses from power plants. Two methods were chosen to model tesla turbine stall. 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 turbine design and generator mount allows for possibility of changing the generator or connecting to something else. The design of a 1 kw tesla turbine was carried using iterative process for head and discharge for main dimensions of the turbine. Ive done a lot of homework as you can also see on the tesla turbine. Tesla turbine download pdf info publication number us20020182054a1. Tesla turbine, how to make your own tesla turbine for. An ordinary energy system comprises a generator and motor common view, and can be completed with an electric current feedback as shown here in electrical circuit a. Nikola tesla in 19,1 whose rotation shaft was driven. Our tesla turbine design represents the ideal, economical and efficient way to convert the ecat thermal heat into electricity. Apr 07, 2011 flow testing used campus energy lab, compressor, and 9 ft3 tank charged to 200 psi and discharged into the turbine an orifice plate, thermocouples, and pressure transducers with labtech software, were used to find inches of water after running calculations to convert, a flow of approximately 5 lbminute was found. The critical issue of this green energy generator is converting energy store within household water supply without significant head loss.
Nikola tesla secrets for everybody by vladimir utkin u. The flat plates use the principles of adhesion and viscosity in order to turn the shaft. In this theoretical design of tesla turbine is a nonconventional bladeless. Interestingly, using the word turbine to describe tesla s invention seems a bit misleading. The free energy secrets of cold electricity peter a. 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. The tesla turbine testing plant at the edison waterside station, new york. One of the main problems of micro generation of power in thermal energy conversion applications is related to the expander, as this component. Study and design of bladeless tesla turbine research india. 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. The particularly good thing about tesla turbines is they are very easy to build. 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. The necessary disks spacings are nearly reasonable.
This is a new tesla turbine design that produces more energy at lower rpms than the original design. May 07, 2010 the bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. Each rotor consists of 25 disks 38inch thick by 18 inch diameter. Tesla turbine as a compact, liquidfueled electric motor generator future plans. Pdf design and analysis of prototype tesla turbine for. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. Sep 09, 2011 as a turbine the tesla turbine is terrible. An airflow driven electrical generator incorporating a funnelled or coned particle collector a to augment turbulent airflow, convert it to laminar airflow b and direct it through a series of nozzles e to between a series of rotational shaft mounted disks of a tesla turbine i.
Lets just call it a modified hydrostatic drive for electric vehicles. The tesla turbine is made of acrylic and aluminium. The tesla turbine also makes a great steam engine motor to run a, ac or dc generator. Fluid entering through the inlets spirals inwards between disks, transferring power to the rotor shaft. Design and develop a compact, portable tesla turbine for use as a small scale electrical power generator.
Tesla maintains that in the turbine which forms the subjprt of this article, he has carried the steam and gas motor a long step forward toward the maximum attainable efficiency, both theoretical. Operation of the tesla engine depends upon two wellknown properties of fluids. 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. Tesla turbine boundary layer sheartorque bladeless test rig. After the experiment the tesla turbine will be used as an educational instrument.
That invention was a turbine, known today as the tesla turbine, the boundary layer turbine or the flatdisk turbine. Flow testing used campus energy lab, compressor, and 9 ft3 tank charged to 200 psi and discharged into the turbine an orifice plate, thermocouples, and pressure transducers with labtech software, were used to find inches of water after running calculations to convert, a flow of approximately 5 lbminute was found. The search for tesla generator plans that would show a working version of the famous tesla radiant energy generator has been going on for quite a while now, as people all over the world are continually trying to prove that the serbian genius ideas can indeed be put into practice for providing a viable source of free energy that anyone can use without having to invest a significant amount of. The turbine, invented by nikola tesla, which is based on a new principle. I have spent alot of time and effort trying to make this easy to understand and easy for anyone out there to do.
The steam enters at the periphery, and flows in spiral paths to exhaust at the center of the disks. Design and optimization of a tesla turbine for orc applications. I have seen tesla fans try to make jet engines using the tesla turbines for. The tesla turbine motor plans free energy motors and. A tesla turbine has the disadvantage of having to rely on friction interaction between a smooth surface and a fluid. 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 32 days and reached approx. With larger scale gadgets the results are dazzling. Tesla turbomachinery offers a robust, easily manufactured, extremely versatile prime mover with inherent capabilities making it perhaps the best, if not the only, solution for certain niche applications. Tesla turbine also called friction or disc turbine is a valuable candidate to play an important role in the field of small and micro power generation.
But in 19, tesla received a patent for what he described as his most important invention. The bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. Tesla with ford designed and made a prototype car powered by a larger tesla turbine. Experimental stall torque measurements were conducted in two stages. The car was a piercearrow, which had been configured with an 80horsepower, 1,800rpm electric motor instead of a gaspowered engine.
Supported applications solar selfconsumption backup power timebased control offgrid capabilities coming soon warranty 10 years. Abstractthe objective of the present research is to. Investigation on performance and implementation of tesla. If you have not heard about tesla, his generator or the free and easilyavailable blueprints that allow the construction of such a device enabling you to stop buying electricity from the great corporations, than all of this is because nikola tesla and his work were kept under silence in the past decades, mostly due to the government suppression. Tesla turbine is commonly used as the steam turbine to generate electricity. We are talking about water turbine so the materials, of which is the turbine going to. The word turbine in this situation can be misleading. Shaft speed measurements were taken with an optical laser tachometer and tesla turbine stall torque was measured using a spring force gauge.
Pdf design and analysis of prototype tesla turbine for power. A revised tesla turbine concept for orc applications sciencedirect. Since you are using such, might as well make a full time regenerative system with the other side of the magnets in a brushless generator application from the turbine shaft drive. Gb2488394a air driven tesla turbine with halbach array. The computeraided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and.
The computeraided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and owned by third party users. Tesla turbine generator tesla turbine generator loading. Proposed applications with implementation techniques of the. Tesla had nearly 300 patents and countless ideas and inventions, but frequently referenced his particular turbine innovation as one of his most important. Previous work tesla turbine was patented by nikola tesla in 1903. Tesla intended to use his turbine to propel aircraft, in geothermal power plants, in cars. 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. 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. The top half of casings is removed, showing two rotors. You can then run the motor on compressed air to test it. Instead of using windpowered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the teslainspired design consists of.
Tesla off grid generator is the smallest scale at which you may construct the tesla s offgrid generator. The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator. At the lowhead and lowflow region, the tesla cmscale turbine operating range is superimposed. Tesla turbine generator 3d cad model library grabcad. Tesla freie energie generator selber bauen bauanleitung 2018. The bladeless turbine has a promising future as a new power generation system. Design, construction and testing of a tesla turbine. The 1 cm 3 rotor diameter turbine presented here is, to our knowledge, the smallest tesla turbine reported, with an unloaded peak power of 45 mw 12 ccsec flow, 17% efficiency and a peak.
With disks close enough, there is no fundamental reason for its torque to be worse than a good bladed turbine. The tesla turbine is abandoned except in some niches because of its bad efficiency. Pdf development of tesla turbine for green energy applications. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19. How to make a tesla turbine greenest turbine tesla. Tesla turbines have high efficiency when driven with low pressure flows, are relatively simple to manufacture and scale down very favorably. This type of radial expander is characterized by the absence of rotor blades, which are replaced by multiple parallel flat disks. Boundary layer tesla turbine page stanford university. By altering the blade pattern and the outer surface edges this. When the system is in operation, the coolant liquid from the engine. The 1 cm3 rotor diameter turbine presented here is, to our knowledge, the smallest tesla turbine reported, with an unloaded peak power of 45 mw 12 ccsec flow, 17% efficiency and a peak.
There are a few companies on the internet that can build these for you as well. Tesla off grid generator is the smallest scale at which you may construct the teslas offgrid generator. Phoenix turbine builders club, tesla turbine plans, tesla. Tesla turbine final powerpoint linkedin slideshare. As a pump it can do some really cools stuff as other people have posted. Tesla turbine is designed as a prototype towards experimental verification of effectiveness and speed measure. You can also convert a pressure cooker into a steam broiler to produce steam to run your tesla turbine. Although tesla never tested his turbine in a car, he did, by some accounts, develop an electric car in 1931.
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