New Steam Turbine 1st spool up .wmv

First spool up of new turbine, destined as power plant for home and small business scale on site power generation.....combined heat and up to 20kW electrical power.

This video shows the overall system and goals, wood chips to steam to electricity, to hydronic heating system for a fully self contained off grid power generation system, heat and electrical power using a new class of nearly silent boundary layer (Tesla Turbine like) turbine technology.

The boiler will use wood chips or pellets to generate heat that will boil water and produce steam. The steam will expand through this turbine and drive an alternator. That will charge a battery bank to feed an inverter system, or power a system directly. Different from Tesla turbines, this new turbine is nearly silent and could be running inside a garage and not be heard outside. This first spool up is without noise suppression components, yet is already dramatically quieter than the air compressor as can be heard in video. Biomass fuel to home electricity, heating, and hot water for domestic, pool and or hot tub use. Fuel cost is dramatically lower than any other form now available.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Steam Turbine
• home power system
• home power generator
• biomass power
• boundary layer turbine
• Tesla Turbine

[woodfirepower]

Well, what a tesla turbine "could" do and what the one's I've seen "actually" do are two very different things. As for HP produced per pound turbine weight, I don't think that's really a very good way to think of it. What's important is HP produced on turbine shaft, per HP delivered to the turbine in steam. On that count, every Tesla turbine I've evaluated (not many, but seems to be the case generally) have ~5 percent or less conversion efficiency. Really bad. I hope to do better,

rt

[woodfirepower]

I am making them. They aren't for sale yet, but will be once they are all dialed in and working with good long term reliability. So I think I'm perhaps the only one making high power turbines for personal use for home or small business scale requirements. You can contact me at ross *at* tessien *dot* com

[contreeman]

900-1000 rpm is good how much substainable torq are getting? if you put a load on it will it continue to run?



[woodfirepower]

@contreeman They are being designed to handle from 2kW to 20kW sustained torque to an alternator for on site heat and power generation using wood chips or wood pellets as fuel, combined with heating using a hydronic radiant system for space heating and heat exchanger for hot water heating. I'm installing the first demo in my house and you can follow the home conversion videos if interested.

[woodfirepower]

@BrimstoneMerc

Thanks. The boiler I built kicks out around 40kW running normally. So I do have plenty of power to drive it. This winter, I'm just running it to heat water to heat the house. But when I get back to running the turbine, that steam power flows through whatever turbine I hook up. So yes, I have quite a lot of boiler HP to drive the turbines.

rt

[BrimstoneMerc]

@woodfirepower I hope you succeed and then some. I see you put a lot of thought into the turbine but I hope you put as much if not more into the boiler itself.I see lots of videos about turbines and improved effeciency yet many are powered by rudimentary and ineffecient boilers that do little in the way of heat exhange.

[sirtom68]

If i am not mistaken, a Tesla turbine can at best achieve 1 HP per pound of actual engine weight...correct? The real power maker will come from the boiler...and the hungry appetite it has for wood and water. You will never get what you expect, only hope for and try to excel at your expectations. Very nice turbine !

[kheston]

Great stuff! I've been penciling out a similar setup for my off-grid place. This and your other vids are giving me more ideas, really appreciate it.

I don't see any reference to where or how you acquired your turbine, but it would be great to know more about it's design. If you built it from scratch, some links to your reference materials would be awesome!

[SumYoungHoe]

I am looking all over the internet to get one of these. Where did you get yours? Can you post a link? Thank you