RTC2014 Building plans

Four teams attended the Rotterdam Turbine Challenge in 2014. Team Black Turbine won the challenge because their turbine offered the most power under given circumstances. Team Omega delivered the most flexible design for further research with a 3d-printable nozzle.

All four designs are added to the collection of open design building plans and will be used for the next generation of Tesla turbines.

First was team Black Turbine:

pdf:  RTC2014-black_turbine.pdf
step: RTC2014-black_turbine.STEP

Team Omega, also named in an earlyer blog:

pdf:  RTC2014-Omega.pdf
step: RTC2014-Omega.stp

Two other teams also provided very well working Tesla Turbines. These turbines gave less power given the circumstances. With other circumstances this could be different. In example, the turbine of Tesla team 1 has larger blades so it can maybe provide more torque, though we didn't test this.
Team 1 was sponsored by Nootenboom Machine factory.

From left to right: Valentijn Nootenboom, Frans Langerak, Adriaan Mans, Mark van Winkelen, Joost van Keulen.

pdf:  RTC2014-TeslaTeam1.pdf
step: RTC2014-TeslaTeam1.stp



The Tesla bazen team had some bad luck during the match. The turbine worked pretty well during earlyer tests and was sponsored by IHC-Merwede and Biezepol.

 

 

From left to right: Christiaan van 't Oor, Anthar van Geel, Ronald Leemborg, Stefan Knoester, Wesley Pont. 

pdf:  RTC2014-Tesla_bazen.pdf
step: RTC2014-Tesla_bazen.stp