Nikola teslas revolutionary turbine still lies untouched. 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. In the tesla turbine, the smooth disks spin to generate energy fig. 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. Complete specification improvements in the construction of steam and gas turbines. He was born in nottinghamshire, but moved to warwickshire in the 1760s to manage collieries in the nuneaton area. This is a great way to put your interests and hobbies on display. For a time he lived in camp hill house, between hartshill and nuneaton, and later lived in attleborough. May 07, 2010 the bladeless wind turbine is completely enclosed in a relatively small compact unit. 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. This analysis allows a parametric study of turbine performance based on several nondimensional parameters.
Tesla turbine design and the theory of operation of an. A wind turbine power train comprising a turbine rotor stage and drive shaft. And finally, with the third patent, he made the changes necessary to operate the turbine as an internal combustion engine. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19. Childress, the fantastic inventions of nikola tesla adventures unlimited. The evaluation of numerical methods for determining the efficiency.
Be it known that i, nikola tesla, 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 valvular conduits, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. A theory of tesla disc turbines article in proceedings of the institution of mechanical engineers part a journal of power and energy 2265. Renewable energy conversion system with frameless tesla turbine used as steam turbine in coastal areas, has turbine with fluid outlet. 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. In another patent us20110027069 published by heraldo da silva couto et.
Tesla was denied a patent for a transmission he designed using his pump and turbine. The invention is particularly directed to application wherein a number of stages are required to achieve high efficiency operation. Pdf hybrid tesla pelton wheel turbine researchgate. Barriers to tesla turbine commercialization howstuffworks. The tesla turbine also makes a great steam engine motor to run a, ac or dc generator. You can also convert a pressure cooker into a steam broiler to produce steam to run your tesla 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. A rankine cycle turbine drives an electric generator and a feed pump, all on a single shaft, and all enclosed within a hermetically sealed case. Tests were conducted with working fluids ranging from ambient temperature, high pressure air to ambient temperature. A preliminary design of a tesla turbine for pico hydro applications has been undertaken employing rices analytical method. His notes, letters, and patent filings bespeak a genius at work through his seventies, but a genius whose time is increasingly given over to feeding the pigeons of manhattan, and to nursing the sick ones in his hotel room. A, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following. 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 influence of outlet system geometry on tesla turbine working. The blades in turn rotate a generator, which converts the rotational energy into electricity. The high energy gasses like high pressure gas and high velocity gas can be useful if it is able to convert to. In the first patent, tesla introduced his basic bladeless design configured as a pump or compressor. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england. Below you will find the most complete set of teslas patents available to date. Tesla turbine is commonly used as the steam turbine to generate electricity. The shaft is vertically oriented with the turbine exhaust directed downward and the shaft is supported on hydrodynamic fluid film bearings using the process fluid as lubricant and coolant. Thanks to him, we all have ac power that operates safely within our.
Yet power plants use this very design to pump fly ash through a 21 stage vacumn system, 14 inch dia. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine. The torsion of the spring is automatically shown by beams of light and mirrors and the horsepower is read off a scale. This is a print of the patent drawing for a nikola tesla turbine patent in 19. The original patent has been cleaned up and enhanced to create an attractive display piece for your home or office. Tesla turbine patent print tesla wall art tesla print etsy. 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. Hari prasad neopane1 1 department of mechanical engineering, kathmandu university, nepal abstract conventional turbines are mostly reaction and impulse type or both. Instead of using windpowered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the tesla inspired design consists of an. The paper presents an analysis of the influence of tesla turbine outlet system. Nikola tesla 18561943, was the discoverer of the alternating current light and power system in use all over the world today. Nikola teslas valvular conduit the tesla gas turbine patent.
After several months of intensive research, ti designed, built and tested four different turbine configurations. Design, simulation of fluid flow and optimization of operational. In a british patent, number 24,001 of 1910, i have described a bladeless turbine having a rotor consisting of discs with openings in the central portions and separating starwashers, these parts when assembled being riveted together into a single, solid structure and keyed to the shaft. He was a true martyr for science and human progress. Although nikola tesla began his inventing work at the beginning of the 1880s, in the period from 1881 to 1882 while he was working for the central telegraph office in budapest, there is no information of him attempting to obtain a patent for any of his inventions. Nikola tesla was one of the greatest inventors of this century. He applied for his first patent, for an electric arc lamp, after his arrival in the usa on. The investigation yielded a design capable of generating 300 w under conditions of 20 m head and 2. Pdf hybrid teslapelton wheel turbine works on the principle of boundary layer flow of tesla turbine and the impulse force of pelton wheel. His inventions should have made him a multimillionaire, but he died in relative poverty. Oct 19, 2016 nikola tesla is a man that invented many things, but he is most known for the alternating current electricity supply system.
The pros and cons of tesla turbines are discussed in this article, as are those of the tesla pump. Around the year 1900 nikola tesla, the inventor of the alternating current motor, developed a different kind of steam turbine. Discs have to be as thin as possible, to preventturbulenceatdiscedges. Patent 7695242 was issued in 2010 for wind turbine intended for. In a wind turbine, the wind the fluid causes the blades to rotate. The theory of operation of a tesla turbine relies on boundary layer effects, which makes for good efficiency for the tesla turbine. Patent 609,250 electrical igniter for gas engines nikola tesla canadian patent 142352 art of transmitting electrical energy through the natural mediums. At 9,000 revolutions per minute, with 125 pounds at the throttle and free exhaust, this turbine develops 200 horsepower. These systems involve the use of a steam turbine which powers the generator head. The apparatus comprises a runner composed of a plurality of flat rigid disks of suitable diameter, keyed to a shaft 16, and held in position thereon by a threaded nut 11, a shoulder 12, and intermediate washers 17. See more ideas about tesla generator, tesla turbine and nikola tesla. Omnipresence of teslas work and ideas semantic scholar. Our tesla turbine design represents the ideal, economical and efficient way to convert the ecat thermal heat into electricity. One of the earliest records of experiment undertakings is by n.
Original patent of the tesla turbine as patented in 19 by the u. Treatment of a bladeless turbine designed by nikola tesla is given. Investigations of aerodynamics of tesla bladeless microturbines. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine raunak jung pandey 1, sanam pudasaini, saurav dhakal1, rangeet ballav uprety1, dr. John barber 17341793 was an english coal viewer and inventor. It is simple in design and can be easy to construct from the us patent itself.
The patent search blog posted a few links to lead us directly to many of the patents, citing 373 us patent applications, 168 granted us patents and 8 us design patents. Pdf development of tesla turbine for green energy applications. The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator. Industrial tesla turbines may be used in hybrid cars or in commercial applications. So all we can offer you at this time is the tesla turbine us patent. Patent 568,178 method of regulating apparatus for producing electric currents of high frequency nikola tesla u. This document summarizes the development of an integral perturbation solution of the equations governing momentum transport in microchannels between disks of multipledisk drag turbines such as the tesla turbine. The efficiency of the preliminary turbine design was near 80% but it is believed that. Request pdf investigations of aerodynamics of tesla bladeless. I, nikola tesla, electrical and mechanical engineer, citizen of the united states of american of no. We analyze papers and patents over an extensive period of time that cite. In 2003, scott ohearen took a patent on the radial turbine blade system. Design and fabrication of cmscale tesla turbines by vedavalli gomatam krishnan a dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in engineering electrical engineering and computer sciences in the graduate division of the university of california, berkeley committee in charge. In the second patent, tesla modified the basic design so it would work as a turbine.