Team Black Turbine

Another team of turbine builders was busy in the shop today with testing their turbine design. This time team Black Turbine (Ronald Kok, Christaan Leendertse, Bart Maree, Sander in 't Veld & Rens Hermus) We are testing the turbines with an easy design brake for this first match. A known torque, applied at the turbine shaft with a measured rotational frequency gives the delivered shaft power.

During the test the turbine seemed to deliver more power as the break could handle. The belt, used for the break started melting and burning. For the test team its time to look at other belt materials for testing.

The "Black Turbine" come with a set of steel, replaceable nozzles which can be mounted at the air pressure inlet.

Team Omega

With four teams of each five students improving the turbine designs it seems to be time to organize a match. All four teams have working turbines which all should be an improvement of the first two designs. Last Friday I met one of the teams at the Academieplein location of the Rotterdam university of Applied Science.

Team Omega (Ruben Willemen, Therry Baas, Ricardo Mertens & Lodewijk Voorhoeve) found enough sponsors to provide them the parts for their designed turbine. One of the nice advantages is the nozzle, which is a 3D-printed part. This makes cheap experiments with the nozzle possible.

The testrun they performed showed pretty good results already. A youtube video is available already: