Comments on: Tesla Turbines

By: K.Natrajan

K.Natrajan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:24 +0000

Iam an siemens turbine commissioning engineer,i want information of Tesla’turbine,we are doing 40mw setup to commissioned.pls give me your information about tesla.
regards
k.Natarajan.
turbine commissioning eng.

By: praveenkumar

praveenkumar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:03:27 +0000

Hello sir,
I am studying 8 th sem B.E(Mechanical).i doing a project on “safety evaluation in low pressure steam turbine” so i need a information about that topic.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:05:31 +0000

Our consulting company, PNGinc, just announced a new 100-lot Tesla turbogenerator manufacturing program aimed at renewable energy product developers, solar thermal power projecs AND do-it-yourselfers. This steam/ORC turbine-permanent magnet generator is featured in our “New Turbine Power” newsletters at the free online Phoenix Turbine Builders Club. – By the way, we are preparing our next DIY Tesla turbine project CD for those who want to “roll their own”.

By: Snaezi

Snaezi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:23:29 +0000

Hi guys, i am looking for a tesla turbine somewhere in the vicinity of 50-100kW, i have low temp geothermal steam (150°C), Where can i buy something like this ??
please let me know snaezi(at)iceh2.com

By: piyush

piyush — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:48:07 +0000

I want to make a tesla turbine and need help with some design caculations.
I have steam delivery system which will give 150 C steam at 4 kg/cm2 pressure at the rate of 400 g/ sec. This needs to drive the turbine to generate power.
I wish to extract 400 N/m/sec torque from this steam to extract 75 KW or more.
The system I am designing will be modular with small footprint and will operate using solar energy. We have the steam part almost ready. Now need robust turbine. Pls email me .

By: SIVARAMAKRISHNIAH

SIVARAMAKRISHNIAH — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:50:09 +0000

hi Frank ,
i designed Tesla Turbine calculations,please give me your mail ID ,i should send to me.

By: SIVARAMAKRISHNAIAH

SIVARAMAKRISHNAIAH — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:40:29 +0000

hi Frank,now i am going to design 60kw power of Tesla turbine,i was design thermal calculations,so who are they will touch me ,will improve design concepts.

By: steven mcclellan

steven mcclellan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:32:01 +0000

i have invented a new design of an aqua turbine. the concept has been ascessed as being very promissing. right now it is in the hands of an engineer drawing up the spects. i will be looking for a company to ascess my invention and to possibly build it for me. It is a high speed turbine.
steve

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:01:31 +0000

Is anybody manufacturing a smaller Tesla Turbine (10Kw-100KW) and if so who are they, where are they, and how do I get in touch with them?

Frank

By: John Payson

John Payson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:11:05 +0000

As I understand Tesla’s experience with the system, he found limitations in the materials available for the disks. Operating with steam as power source, and requiring high RPM operating speed, metals available were limiting in that they were not able to withstand the velocity, and the temperatures, owing to the high inertia loads on the outer portion of the rotor disks. Today however we have available alternate materials, including some strong and tough ceramics, such as zironia (yttria stabliized) toughened alumina which might work well as a disk material.

The other limitation may be lack of experience by the mainstream of engineering.

For example, while the Wright Bros. aircraft design depended upon the stall-proof canard horizontal stabilizer; mainstream aircraft design used a tail mounted horizontal stabilizer in order to evade the Wright Bros. patent. This became the standard of design for decades, even long after the Wright patents expired. Why? Simple inertia— the canard design represented unknown technology, and so– a risk in an unforgiving industry. The canard design was not used in any major way until Rutan used it his designs. You still do not see it in major commercial aircraft– because of inertia of decades of design and understanding. (Even though the canard design is virtually stall proof, airliners are still designed with tail stabilizers and rely upon computers to try and prevent stalls— which still occur.)

Without any understanding of the concepts by Tesla contemporaries; and extensive experience already in construction of other steam turbine designs, there was no further development on the Tesla system to actually see what developed.

Is it not the case that other then the large demonstrator built by Tesla himself, the only other examples are table top demonstrations by hobbyists and students?

This does not seem to be a fair trial or effort at development.