Hi,
Could someone with knowledge of the tesla turbine confirm as to whether this is true or not........ ???
If i was to feed air at a pressure of 50 psi and a flow rate of say 5 litres per minute and it turned the turbine at 30'000 rpm.....
would the turbine therefore, if span at 30'000rpm mechanically, produce the above flow rate and pressure from the exit pipes used to feed the engine????
I don't think the numbers work out quite that well -- there are losses to be considered, and the basic turbine structure can be optimized to work either as a pump or as a turbine; an entirely symmetrical version would work fairly well either way but won't give the best performance either way, either. If you know what I mean.
But Tesla pumps, using the basic turbine design, are still in use to move fluids with lots of lumps and irregularities, like drilling mud, where other designs would fail quickly.
Here's one I made that's electrostatically driven and pumps air:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir9RIsXzmzY
Thats fantastic... :)
Reason i asked.... i was wondering if it would be possible to magnetise the the internal plates and run the pump inside a rodin coil.
something along the lines of this..... (instead running a tesla turbine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-wfDyM6uU
with the the output of the tesla turbine attached to a vortex tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVCq-V0GzBQ
Not sure if a tesla turbine could provide the flow rate and psi though....
The vortex tubes can be configured to varying high temperatures and low temperatures...
If i could only think up a device that would give me refrigeration and heating and only uses 8 watts of power. ;D