The Tesla Turbine..ak..VALVULAR CONDUIT..Is being put to use now.
I hadn't heard of this and now its being used new applications after being rediscover.
Blow in one end and not much passes through. Blow in the other end and air passes through much easier.
Nikola Tesla’s valvular conduit is another one of his forgotten inventions. Very few understand its importance and what it can do. Invented in 1920 it has largely been overlooked. What is it? In simple terms it is a one-way valve. That in its self is not special. What makes it special is the fact it has NO moving parts. Think about that for a moment.
How does the gas/fluid get stopped if there is nothing mechanical to get in the way?
The answer is bizarrely simple. The gas/fluid itself becomes the physical restriction.
How? The design uses particular shape. When the gas/fluid flows in one direction it changes direction slightly, in a zigzag way but is relatively unrestricted and does not find much resistance. However, when it flows in the other direction because of the design the gas/fluid get spilt into two. These flows then end up meeting almost head on. This causes some resistance. This is repeated numerous times, each time reducing in pressure/flow. This type of valve is never going to work as a seal for you wine bottle, it simply does not work well at low pressures. However, when high pressures are used it comes into its own and the ratio between two direction of flows gets higher and higher. Amazingly this can be demonstrated just by blowing into it.
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How the Tesla Turbine Works
Interestingly, using the word "turbine" to describe Tesla's invention seems a bit misleading. That's because most people think of a turbine as a shaft with blades -- like fan blades -- attached to it. In fact, Webster's dictionary defines a turbine as an engine turned by the force of gas or water on fan blades. But the Tesla turbine doesn't have any blades. It has a series of closely packed parallel disks attached to a shaft and arranged within a sealed chamber. When a fluid is allowed to enter the chamber and pass between the disks, the disks turn, which in turn rotates the shaft. This rotary motion can be used in a variety of ways, from powering pumps, blowers and compressors to running cars and airplanes. In fact, Tesla claimed that the turbine was the most efficient and the most simply designed rotary engine ever designed.
If this is true, why hasn't the Tesla turbine enjoyed more widespread use? Why hasn't it become as ubiquitous as Tesla's other masterpiece, AC power transmission? These are important questions, but they're secondary to more fundamental questions, such as how does the Tesla turbine work and what makes the technology so innovative? We'll answer all of these questions on the next few pages. But first, we need to review some basics about the different types of engines developed over the years. On the next page, we'll get a better idea of the specific problem Tesla was hoping to solve with his new invention.
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applications.
Today, many amateur experiments in the field have been conducted using Tesla turbines, including steam turbines (using steam produced from a burner, or even solar power) and turbos for automobiles. One proposed current application for the device is a waste pump, in factories and mills where normal vane-type turbine pumps typically get blocked.
Applications of the Tesla turbine as a multiple-disk centrifugal blood pump have yielded promising results.Biomedical engineering research on such applications has been continued into the 21st century.[7]
In 2010, a patent was issued for a wind turbine based on the Tesla design.
A similar pump was used to win the Oil Cleanup XPriz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine
Also here;
http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/50363-tesla-valvular-conduit/
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/the-tesla-valve-one-way-flow-with-no-moving-parts/
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/the-tesla-valve-one-way-flow-with-no-moving-parts/
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