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Welcome to our website we are now introducing a new line of products that are making available for sale to the general public. A boundary layer turbine and a boundary layer compressor, more commonly known as a Tesla turbine, our research and design are based on the patents filed by Nikola Tesla. We produced our first boundary layer turbine in 2006 in the past five years we have built multiple variations of the design and refined the manufacturing process. The major components that we use in the construction of our turbines and compressors such as the turbine disks and casing are custom machined from aluminum alloys or stainless steel, as these are upgraded materials from original design. |
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Nikola Tesla “In the principal application of mechanical power based on the use of fluid has the vehicle of energy, it has been demonstrated that, in order to attain the highest economy, the changes in the velocity and direction of momentum of the fluid should be as gradual as possible. In the forms of apparatus heretofore devised or proposed, more or less sudden changes, shocks and vibrations are unavoidable. Besides, the employment of the usual devices for implementing to or deriving energy from a fluid, such as pistons, paddles, veins and waits necessarily introduce numerous defects and limitations and had to be a complication, cost of production and maintenance of the machine. The object of my invention is to overcome these deficiencies and to affect the transmission and transformation of mechanical energy throughout the agency of fluids in a more perfect manner and by means of simpler and more economical than those heretofore employed. I accomplished this by causing the propelling fluid to move in a natural path or stream of least resistance, free from constraint and disturbance vanes or kindred devices, and to change its velocity and direction of movement by imperceptible degrees, thus avoiding the losses due to sudden variation while the fluid is imparting energy” (application filed Jan. 17, 1911 patented May 6, 1913 patent number 1,061,206) |
In the design and construction of our models of the Tesla turbine we have made some design modifications from the original patent the most notable of which is the use of a single inlet port. We also offer an option of the number of disks used. The variety of potential energy sources that can be used with the system we cannot guarantee a power rating on any of our models “working under the best conditions in the experimental laboratory a single disc of 9 3/4 In. Diameter with a center outlet of 3 5/8 in., will develop 5 HP without nearly approaching the limit of strain on the material,” (original quote Nikola Tesla popular mechanics magazine December 1911 written by E. F. Stearns) photo the 200-HP Tesla turbine with the upper section of the case removed to show the disks, etc.
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Image of the boundary layer pump, this is the inverse system of the boundary layer turbine, the power for the system comes from the outside source that imparts power to the center shaft, the boundary layer affect accelerates the fluid outward creating a high pressure at the exit nozzle, and a low-pressure area at the inlet. In this photo the inlet is located at the center bottom, the inlet from this viewpoint would be in front and back of the desks. |
More information about the boundary layer turbines we offer can be found on the sales page
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