Stirling engine operating at low temperature difference

Stochastic Stirling Engine Operating in Contact with Active Baths

A Stirling engine made of a colloidal particle in contact with a nonequilibrium bath is considered and analyzed with the tools of stochastic energetics. We model the bath by non Gaussian persistent noise acting on the colloidal particle. Depending on the chosen definition of an isothermal transformation in this nonequilibrium setting, we find that either the energetics of the engine parallels t...

Design of a 2.5kW Low Temperature Stirling Engine for Distributed Solar Thermal Generation

This paper focuses on the design of a Stirling engine for distributed solar thermal applications. In particular, we design for the low temperature differential that is attainable with distributed solar collectors and the low cost that is required to be competitive in this space. We will describe how these considerations drive the core design, the methodology for improving the design, and summar...

Stirling Solar Engine Design Report

The Electromagnetic Mass Difference of Pions at Low Temperature

We compute low temperature corrections to the electromagnetic mass difference of pions in the chiral limit. The computation is done in a model independent way in the framework of chiral perturbation theory, using the background field method and the hard thermal loop approximation. We also generalize at low temperature the sum rule of Das et al. We find that the mass difference between the charg...

Stirling Engines for Low-Temperature Solar-Thermal- Electric Power Generation

Stirling Engines for Low-Temperature Solar-Thermal-Electric Power Generation