Each rotor consists of 25 disks 38inch thick by 18 inch diameter. May 07, 2010 the bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. Exploratory calculations with the model indicate that turbine efficiencies exceeding 75% can be achieved by designing for optimal ranges of the governing dimensionless parameters. A theory of tesla disc turbines article in proceedings of the institution of mechanical engineers part a journal of power and energy 2265. It is not intended to be used for prolonged periods or to be permanently used. Tesla turbine, turbine efficiency, power, torque, analytical theory, threedimensional flowfield.
Interestingly, using the word turbine to describe teslas invention seems a bit misleading. Goal zero yeti 1250 portable power station with roll cart, 1200wh chainable home battery backup generator alternative with. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine ijsrp. This is a simple 3d printable design for a tesla turbine. See more ideas about tesla turbine, tesla generator and wind power generator. Although teslas dream for his engines application in aircraft was not realized in his lifetime, if allowed to be used in aircraft today, it would provide a quiet, safe, simple and efficient alternative to.
The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19. 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. The tesla cd turbine is homemade from recycled cd s, cd cakebox, and neodymium magnets. Purchase wall connectors, chargers, adapters, vehicle accessories and tesla branded merchandise, collectibles and clothing for women, men and children. Learn how to make a powerful high rpm tesla turbine motor from plywood and aluminum flashing. The tesla turbine is one of the great unknown creations of nikola tesla, the famed inventor of the early 20th century. It will interest the readers of the scientific american to know that nikola tesla, whose reputation must, naturally, stand upon the contributions he made to electrical engineering when the art was yet in its comparative infancy, is by training and choice a mechanical. Pdf the objective of the present research is to examines the potential benefits of tesla disk turbine tdt, a harmless mean of energy. Mrfixitrick shows how to make hydroelectric power using faucet water pressure, a tesla cd turbine, and a subaru radiator fan motor. The tesla steam turbine the rotary heat motor reduced to its simplest terms.
The steam enters at the periphery, and flows in spiral paths to exhaust at the center of the disks. 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. It is simple in design and can be easy to construct from the us patent itself. A tesla turbine is made of a set of parallel discs with nozzles, through. Tinsay dc water turbine generator water 12v dc 10w microhydro water turbine hydroelectric charging power 12v generator. How to make hydroelectric power with a tesla cd turbine. Simple tesla turbine made out of cds housed in a plastic cd cake box disc pack. Millimeterscale, microelectromechanical systems gas. Ot what is wrong with teslas turbine and compressors.
Several different experiments are tried, using air, water, magnets, no magnets, saw blade attachment. It is configured for 10 discs, each of which must have a small triangular notch cut into the inner hole to mate with corresponding grooves on the shaftthe grooves are rifled in such a way that the discs are compressed when it spins. Previous work tesla turbine was patented by nikola tesla in 1903. For this instructable, i have tamed the wild beast pumpkincutter cd turbine of the last instructable and made it into a fun, smooth and safe kitchen tool that runs on water faucet pressure. Theory and performance of tesla turbines by vincent domenic.
In this paper,the development is carried out to determine disc size, disk gap and number of disc base on theoretical calculation of tesla turbine. A collection of older materials on tesla s disc turbine. This is a printable tesla turbine which uses compact discs or dvds as the turbine blades. Tesla turbine 3d printable 3d cad model library grabcad. Make a tesla turbine blade out of compact disks or dvd for free energy devices. Turn your junk cds into something very interesting.
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. Some great revving action with the sights and sounds of this cd turbine at over 10,000 rpm on compressed air. Pdf optimization of tesla turbine using computational fluid. From 1950 onwards both theoretical and experimental research on tesla turbine, tesla pump, tesla fan and tesla compressor has been regenerated. Hari prasad neopane1 1 department of mechanical engineering, kathmandu university, nepal abstract conventional turbines are mostly reaction and impulse type or both. This tesla cd turbine is based on the tesla turbine, which was invented by nikola tesla in the early 1900s.
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. Flow characteristics of multichannel tesla turbines. 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. The tesla turbine motor plans free energy motors and generators. Tesla s pumps and motors were unique in that they only used discs, and took adv. Offhand modern tests with a gaseous flow have resulted in low efficiencies. That invention was a turbine, known today as the tesla turbine, the boundary layer turbine or the flatdisk turbine. You can then run the motor on compressed air to test it. It starts with the initial thought process what if mcgyver met tesla. Seal the outer edges of the cd to prevent air or water from escaping. The top half of casings is removed, showing two rotors. Nikola tesla turbine tshirt, engineering gifts, electronics student, garage workshop, electrical generator. Barriers to tesla turbine commercialization howstuffworks. The tesla cd turbine is homemade from recycled cds, cd cakebox, and neodymium magnets.
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. This i a super cool, high tech science project from green power science. Pdf development of tesla turbine for green energy applications. Tesla turbine was patented by nikola tesla in 1903. A tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in the early 20th century. So, when jet of fluid passes through the disk,dueto adhesion the disk will rotate.
Pdf optimization of tesla turbine using computational. Teslas pumps and motors were unique in that they only used discs, and took adv. Tesla turbine, axial flow bladed turbine, flow efficiency, cfd calculations, rans model. If you added a bottle cap to the inflow port, make sure all areas around it are also sealed off. Oct 12, 2007 it starts with the initial thought process what if mcgyver met tesla. Revin up the tesla cd turbine ii with magnetic disc pack. Boundary layer tesla turbine page stanford university. The design of a 1 kw tesla turbine was carried using iterative process for head and discharge for main dimensions of the turbine. A tesla turbine has the disadvantage of having to rely on friction interaction between a smooth surface and a fluid. Hybrid teslapelton wheel turbine works on the principle of boundary layer flow of tesla turbine and the impulse force of pelton wheel turbine its primary objective is to minimize the mechanical losses and achieve better efficiency. 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. The bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit.
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, more than anything, prevented the tesla turbine from becoming more widely used. Pdf design and analysis of prototype tesla turbine for power. Take 1 cd and glue four magnets to the shiny under side. A micro tesla turbine for power generation from low pressure heads and evaporation driven flows vedavalli g. Cd tesla turbine make a tesla turbine out of cd dvd platters.
But in 19, tesla received a patent for what he described as his most important invention. Bioengineering researchers have referred to it as a multiple disc. Hybrid tesla pelton wheel turbine works on the principle of boundary layer flow of tesla turbine and the impulse force of pelton wheel turbine its primary objective is to minimize the mechanical losses and achieve better efficiency. Attaining high efficiency inne poses many tesla turbi. If you do use the turbine for this function, use at your own risk. Tesla claimed that the engineers at the plant sabotaged his design by altering it.
As a result, model s acceleration is instantaneous, silent and smooth. 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. All of the magnets should have the polarity going on the same direction. Interestingly, using the word turbine to describe tesla s invention seems a bit misleading. Disc thickness and spacing distance impacts on flow. The turbine is supplied on a aluminium base for display and demonstration purposes connected using two m6 hex cap screws. The particularly good thing about tesla turbines is they are very easy to build. Tesla turbine design and the theory of operation of an. How efficient are teslabladeless turbines as reddit. The making of the tesla cd turbine prototype youtube.
History of tesla turbines a tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. So all we can offer you at this time is the tesla turbine us patent. The tesla turbine testing plant at the edison waterside station, new york. How to make a tesla turbine out of a cd wonderhowto. Design purpose the remainder of this paper documents a preliminary design of a tesla type turbine to be applied in a rural. Like its bladed turbine counterparts, it converts moving fluids into energy. The hybrid tesla pelton wheel turbine is similar to the tesla turbine, except for its discs, that are all or in part replaced by the new discs that have characteristics of the pelton wheel. In multipledisk turbines, high speed flow enters tangentially at the outer ra.
Documented in this text is the result of teslas endeavors and the resulting marvel of machines called the bladeless boundarylayer turbine. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine. Build a 15,000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters to build a turbine like this, you need some dead hard drives, some stock material aluminum, acrylic, a milling machine with a rotary table, and a lathe with a 4 jaw chuck. Apr 09, 2008 make a tesla turbine blade out of compact disks or dvd for free energy devices. The tesla turbine motor plans free energy motors and. 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. Tesla turbines are made out of a series of thin disks attached to a central rotor. The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator. New 22 inch x 910 tesla turbine style staggered wheels rims 5 lug gloss black compatible with tesla x model all set of 4. Unexpectedly, this maximum was achieved with a nozzle pointed at 45 from tangential, which may have been caused by the disc pack variant used in the tests. The tesla turbine, now known as a boundary layer disk turbine has been rejuvenated for the purpose of. Design, construction and testing of a tesla turbine. A collection of older materials on teslas disc turbine. 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.
The turbine design and generator mount allows for possibility of changing the generator or connecting to something else. Design analysis of tesla microturbine operating on a lowboiling. However, instead of using angled blades to rotate a shaft, it uses smooth, parallel discs. 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.