10-06-2017, 07:05 AM
Abstract- Conventional turbines are mostly reaction and
impulse type or both. Often technical challenge faced by
conventional turbines in Himalaya is erosion by sediment.
Financial feasibility of power plants is depended upon
innovations to prevent erosion of mechanical equipments or
alternatives which better handle these conditions.
Tesla turbine is an unconventional turbine that uses fluid
properties such as boundary layer and adhesion of fluid on series
of smooth disks keyed to a shaft. It has been garnering interest as
Pico turbine where local communities could manage such
stations in low capital. It provides a simple design which can be
produced locally and maintained at low cost. It can be useful in
plants for pumping of water and other viscous fluids. Tesla
Turbine pump has been used as a blood pump. Due to its
uniqueness it has its own clich uses giving importance to
identify the scope of use of Tesla Turbine in Nepal.
This paper is presented in context of research project at
Kathmandu University to understand working of Tesla Turbine.
For this design and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis
of 1 kW tesla turbine was carried out. The models thus created
were used for computational analysis. The proposed uses of
Tesla Turbine in Nepal have been suggested.
