Abstract:
A heteroscopic turbine with a Knudsen number of less than ten. In one embodiment, the heteroscopic turbine generates a flow (7) from a gas. The turbine includes at least a moving surface (1) and a plurality of turbine blades (5, 11) on or in said surface. Each of the blades has a height comparable to a mean free path distance that characterizes molecules in the gas, and the blades are spaced apart by a distance comparable to the mean free path distance. In operation, the surface moves such that the turbine blades pass through the gas at a speed comparable to the mean thermal velocity. In different embodiments, the turbine can perform filtering of molecules in the gas based on direction and/or speed (velocity). Also, techniques by which such a turbine operates.
Abstract:
A shear flow turbomachinery device includes a housing having housing walls defining a cavity, a shaft extending into the cavity though a shaft opening in the housing wall at an end of the cavity, a for coupled to the shaft within the cavity, the rotor having a plurality of disks extending radially outward from a central axis of the rotor, the disks having a spaced arrangement forming a gap between adjacent disks, and a shroud for shrouding the rotor, the shroud including a pair of end disks coupled to opposing ends of the rotor, a screen extending between outer edges of the pair of end disks, the screen extending around the rotor between the rotor and the housing walls, wherein the shroud is freely rotatable independent of rotation of the rotor to reduce drag on the disks due to the housing walls when the cavity if filled with fluid and the shaft and plurality of disks are rotated.
Abstract:
A radial turbine comprising: a housing (1); a rotor (3) mounted within the housing (1) on a shaft (5); an inlet channel (2) for supplying a working medium generally tangentially in respect to the circumference of the rotor (3); an outlet channel (4) located near the centre of the rotor (3); the rotor (3) comprising working cavities (9) of a generally spiral shape starting generally tangentially to the circumference of the rotor (3), for conducting the working medium from the inlet channel (2) to the outlet channel (4). The working cavities (9) of the rotor are of generally rectangular cross-section, which has a width (W), oriented generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor (3), longer than the height (H) of said rectangular cross-section, oriented generally parallel to the radius of the rotor (3), wherein the height (H) of the cavity cross-section is not greater than six times the thickness of a boundary layer of the working medium developed on the internal surface of the wider wall of the cavity (9).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pressure reduction plant for a gas or gas mixture and recovering of the pressure power lost by said gas or gas mixture, the said gas or the said gas mixture flowing through at least a driving turbine of an electrical power turbo generator set, which comprises a high pressure inlet pipeline (6, 6c, 6d) through which said gas feeds said Tesla turbine, a flow rate control valve (9), a flowmeter (10), at least a Tesla turbine (T, Ta, Tb, Tc, Td), an exit low pressure pipe (4, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) of the Tesla turbine of the gas with reduced pressure, a flow rate control valve (14), a flowmeter (13), a security valve (15) and a final exit pipeline (16) of the gas with reduced pressure, being said at least one driving Tesla turbine (T, Ta, Tb, Tc, Td) at least an electric power generator, which generator (7, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) supplies the generated power by means of a connection cable (11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d) to a transforming and delivering power unit (12), connected through a connection cable (18) to devices of the plant itself or through an exportation cable (29) to an external grid.
Abstract:
Utility Model Patent for a hybrid turbine that consists in a Tesla turbine improved with the replacement partial or total of its smooth discs by innovative discs called 'Pelton type discs (2)'. The parts of the Tesla turbine are: stator, shaft, inlet, exhaust outlet (4) and smooth discs (2). The disc (2) with an innovative format, object of this patent, owns the characteristics of the Pelton Wheel, once it owns cavities (1) that are hit by the working fluid. The 'Pelton type' discs (2) have as purpose to increase the torque provided by the shaft of the turbine and it is an improvement of the Tesla turbine that makes it useful for many applications and improve its efficiency in applications which demands bigger torque that furnished by the original Tesla turbine. The proportion between 'Pelton type' discs (2) and smooth discs, used in the turbine, defines the increase of torque. The Hybrid Tesla-Pelton Wheel can be used like a pump, compressor or vacuum pump if operates in reverse way, that means, the working fluid goes into the openings near the centre (3) of the discs (2) and goes out at the ends of the discs (2) (effect that is obtained turning the shaft by a motor).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a rotary eddy machine that comprises a stator (1) and a rotor (2) separated by a toroidal working chamber (3). The chamber includes a plurality of vanes (4) and a separator (5) which are respectively connected to the stator and to the rotor. The working chamber communicates with a channel (6) formed in the rotor for supplying the working medium and with a channel (7) for discharging said working medium. The width of the working chamber section is equal to the difference between the maximal and the minimal radii of said chamber, wherein the radii correspond respectively to the distance from the axis to the most remote point of the working chamber and to the distance from the axis to the closest point of the working chamber. The ratio between the maximal radius of the working chamber (R) and the width of its section (h) is at least equal to 4.5 but does not exceed 9.5.