Tesla turbine/blower info needed
Tesla turbine/blower info needed
(OP)
Hey you all and greetings from a newbie on the list.
I need a medium pressure blower (500-700 Pa) with relatively low volume flow (20-30 cubic meters / hour) and haven't yet found that from any supplier that have agents in Finland. I heard about the Tesla blower / turbine and got interested. That's a design that we could perhaps manufacture my ourselves. Anyway, all the information I found about the design from the internet is historical, with no technical details. Does anyone here know about the design practises of this type of blower ? Any web links etc. ?
Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks !
Kimmo Ahola
I need a medium pressure blower (500-700 Pa) with relatively low volume flow (20-30 cubic meters / hour) and haven't yet found that from any supplier that have agents in Finland. I heard about the Tesla blower / turbine and got interested. That's a design that we could perhaps manufacture my ourselves. Anyway, all the information I found about the design from the internet is historical, with no technical details. Does anyone here know about the design practises of this type of blower ? Any web links etc. ?
Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks !
Kimmo Ahola





RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
I have an inventor friend who has been toying with the Tesla turbine concept for years and will quizz him a little.
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
There's no patent on the Tesla turbine; anyone that wants to, anywhere in the world, can make the things for whatever reason they want. The fact that nobody does should be pretty informative.
As I mentioned above, I recall reading claims of high power output for its size. Which is pretty meaningless for a steam turbine, seeing as how you have a huge boiler. Anyway, no mention is made of efficiency, which leads me to suppose that the thing was simply inefficient. You can get a lot of power out of a paddlewheel if you blow enough steam at it, but that doesn't make it a great way to produce power.
I don't recall reading anything about the thing used as a blower, where it seems to me it would be much less efficient than as a power plant.
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
Some good pictures and descriptions.
http://www.frank.germano.com/index.htm
A batch of books in the turbine.
http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/q&a_031.htm
http://www.tfcbooks.com/mall/turbomac.htm
Turbine (Tesla) builders club
http://www.phoenixnavigation.com/ptbc/home.htm
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
"It is my belief, that by combining Schauberger's theories on the "living energies" contained in water with the Tesla Turbine, a radical approach to how we obtain and distribute electrical energy will result. Non-polluting, environmentally sound, readily obtainable, virtually "free" energy, that can be distributed economically to everyone on the planet." (From the Frank Germano site above)
"The biggest problem regarding the Tesla turbine engines’ construction has been incomplete and inaccurate plans calling themselves the Tesla turbine engine. While these plans, such as those appearing in Live Steam, Popular Mechanics and elsewhere do illustrate the basic operating principle, they are missing key components critical to the proper functioning of the engine. Trying to obtain satisfactory results matching those achieved by Tesla are impossible using these heretofore compromised plans. TEBA was formed in April of 1993 to provide accurate information and assistance to those interested in building reproductions of Tesla’s engine that would perform properly." From the Tesla Engine Builder's club. IE, pay them, or your turbine won't work right. So either they're full of BS or every other source out there is. (Note that you can download patents for free, so evidently the patents don't tell you how to do it right, either.)
The ultimate test, that these people seem to overlook, is just building the thing. If it's so cheap and wonderful and efficient and simple, just build a gas-turbine in your garage using the concept, and then start selling them. Piston engines will then be rapidly obsolete, and the builder of the Tesla-powered cars will be a multi-billionaire.
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The close tolerances required for really high efficiency will clog up with dirt and debris fairly easily unless the medium is well filtered. For many general purpose applications that might be a fairly significant problem, as it would need total dismantling to clean properly.
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
RE: Tesla turbine/blower info needed
A little research will point out that Tesla disc pumps
are great for pumping the worst kind of materials.
Make them out of the right materials and they can pump sulfuric acid.
They can pump goldfish and NOT kill them if you space the discs properly. They can also pump highly abrasive materials like sand in high Sand/H20 concentrations without tearing them up.
look up DiscFlo.
NASCAR uses Disc pumps for cooling pumps. They are a higher efficiency pump, therefore use less hp, and work better!