Improvement in Mechanical Efficiency in Tesla Turbine by the employment of Carbon Fiber Disc.

This paper enlightens about the use of Carbon Fibers as a improvement material in the Tesla Turbine instead of conventionally used blade materials. The main convolution behind this paper reveals about the Mechanical efficiency to be improved. In the case of the conventional turbines the mechanical efficiency was low upto the great extent because of poor aerodynamic design for the blades as well as low quality blade material. The improvement can be laid upon by enhancing the blades which can sustain upto higher temperatures. The main purpose behind the use of Carbon Fibre dics is to improve the strength of disc since the material has good advantages over the conventional blade material. The material has high stiffness, high tensile strength and other radiant properties. Here the experimental investigation is laid upon and the analysis is employed to compare the properties with the conventional blade material.