An Introduction to Stirling Engines
Author | : James R. Senft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Stirling engines |
ISBN | : 9780965245500 |
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Author | : James R. Senft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Stirling engines |
ISBN | : 9780965245500 |
Author | : Vineeth C S |
Publisher | : Vineeth CS |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
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ISBN | : |
A lucid introduction to the Stirling Engines, written primarily for laymen with little back ground in Mechanical Engineering. The book covers the historical aspects, the conceptual details as well as the brief steps in making a simple working Stirling Engine model.
Author | : Brent H. Van Arsdell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Stirling engines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James R. Senft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Graham Walker |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642825265 |
DEFINITION AND NOMENCLATURE A Stirling engine is a mechanical device which operates on a closed regenerative thermodynamic cycle with cyclic compression and expansion of the working fluid at different temperature levels. The flow of working fluid is controlled only by the internal volume changes, there are no valves and, overall, there is a net conversion of heat to work or vice-versa. This generalized definition embraces a large family of machines with different functions; characteristics and configurations. It includes both rotary and reciprocating systems utilizing mechanisms of varying complexity. It covers machines capable of operating as a prime mover or power system converting heat supplied at high tempera ture to output work and waste heat at a lower temperature. It also covers work-consuming machines used as refrigerating systems and heat pumps abstracting heat from a low temperature source and delivering this plus the heat equivalent of the work consumed to a higher tem perature. Finally it covers work-consuming devices used as pressure generators compressing a fluid from a low pressure to a higher pres sure. Very similar machines exist which operate on an open regen erative cycle where the flow of working fluid is controlled by valves. For convenience these may be called Ericsson engines but unfortunate ly the distinction is not widely established and regenerative machines of both types are frequently called 'Stirling engines'.
Author | : Roy Darlington |
Publisher | : Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Stirling engines |
ISBN | : 9781861266880 |
Hot air engines, often called Stirling engines, are among the most interesting and intriguing engines ever to be designed. They run on just about any fuel, from salad oil and hydrogen to solar and geothermal energy. They produce a rotary motion that can be used to power anything, from boats and buggies to fridges and fans. This book demonstrates how to design, build, and optimise Stirling engines. A broad selection of Roy’s engines is described, giving a valuable insight into the many different types and a great deal of information relating to the home manufacture of these engines is included in the workshop section.
Author | : William Martini |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2013-01-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781482063035 |
For Stirling engines to enjoy widespread application and acceptance, not only must the fundamental operation of such engines be widely understood, but the requisite analytic tools for the stimulation, design, evaluation and optimization of Stirling engine hardware must be readily available. The purpose of this design manual is to provide an introduction to Stirling cycle heat engines, to organize and identify the available Stirling engine literature, and to identify, organize, evaluate and, in so far as possible, compare non-proprietary Stirling engine design methodologies. This report was originally prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U. S. Department of Energy.
Author | : William R. Martini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Stirling engines |
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Author | : Gordon Press Publishers |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780849082979 |
Author | : Allan J Organ |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2022-12-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1800611064 |
Existing literature focuses on the alleged merits of the Stirling engine. These are indeed latent but, decades on, remain to be fully realised. This is despite the fact that Stirling and other closed-cycle prime-movers offer a contribution to an ultra-low carbon economy. By contrast with solar panels, the initial manufacture of Stirling engines makes no demands on scarce or exotic raw materials. Further, calculating embodied carbon per kWh favours the Stirling engine by a wide margin.However, the reader expecting to find the Stirling engine promoted as a panacea for energy problems may be surprised to find the reverse. Stirling and Thermal-Lag Engines reflects upon the fact that there is more to be gained by approaching its subject as a problem than as a solution. The Achilles heel of the Stirling engine is a low numerical value of specific work, defined as work per cycle per swept volume per unit of charge pressure and conventionally denoted Beale number NB. Measured values remain unimproved since 1818, quantified here for the first time at 2% of the NB of the modern internal combustion engine! The low figure is traced to incomplete utilisation of the working gas. Only a small percentage of the charge gas — if any — is processed through a complete cycle, i.e., between temperature extremes.The book offers ready-made tools including a simplified algorithm for particle trajectory map construction; an author-patented mechanism delivering optimised working-gas distribution; flow and heat transfer data re-acquired in context and an illustrated re-derivation of the academically respected Method of Characteristics which now copes with shock formation and flow-area discontinuities. All formulations are presented in sufficient detail to allow the reader to 'pick up and run' with them using the data offered in the book.The various strands are drawn together in a comprehensively engineered design of an internally focusing solar Stirling engine, presented in a form allowing a reader with access to basic machining facilities to construct one.The sun does not always shine. But neither will the oil always flow. This new title offers an entrée to technology appropriate to the 21st century.