Recent content by Rohan2008

Hi everyone, I intend to design a high pressure solar central tower boiler/receiver that can output super heated steam. The idea here is that the solar receiver receives about 800Kw of solar radiation and uses it boil water (36C) to about 590C/150bar. My educational background is not...

Are you saying that wet steam would chew up tesla turbine... or any other components? I was under the assumption that Tesla turbine, unlike the other turbines, can withstand wet steam... doesn't it?

NateD, My background is not mechanical engineering. I can’t understand jargoned language and so please bear with me. Most of the discussion in this thread seems to be around using compressed air with a Tesla turbine. I was wondering how net efficiency would vary if we use wet steam (say...

I found the following article written by Earl Colby Pottinger sometime back... I think the link is down due to some reason and so I feel that the article should be not get lost. Link: http://www3.sympatico.ca/earlcolby.pottinger/1632/1632_Stories/The_Trouble_with_Tesla.html The Trouble...