A small 100 W displacer-type Stirling engine, Ecoboy-SCM81 has being developed by a committee of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. The engine contains unique features, including an expansion cylinder which is heated by either combustion gas or direct solar energy. Also, a simple cooling system rejects heat from the working gas. A displacer piston has both heating and cooling inner tube...

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213-3890 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213-3890 3 Isotherm Technologies LLC, Medina, OH, USA 44256-6431 ABSTRACT A new Stirling micro-refrigeration system composed of arrays of silicon MEMS cooling elements has been designed and evalu...

The design of heat transfer performance regenerator is the key technology Stirling machine and great significance to ensure operation efficiency equipment. In this study temperature difference between two ends at room less than 50K. This paper attempts straight channel grid verify its accuracy. At first, a straight-channel was designed in by analyzing influence structural parameters on order re...

A stacked-screen regenerator is a key component in a thermoacoustic Stirling engine. Therefore, the choice of suitable mesh screens is important in the engine design. To verify the applicability of four empirical equations used in the field of thermoacoustic engines and Stirling engines, this report describes the measurements of heat flow rates transmitted through the stacked screen regenerator...

The profitability impacts of solvent storage are modeled for new coal and natural gas-fired power plants with amine and ammonia-based post-combustion CCS facing variable electricity prices. With perfect information of future prices, up to 3 hours of solvent storage was valuable due to price volatility at carbon prices up to $40/tonne CO2 and no regenerator undersize. With imperfect information ...

correlation of heat transfer coefficients for air flow through the regenerator constructed from randomly paked spheres is reported for the symmetric-balanced mode of operation. the experimental results have been correlated by the least square regression has been obtained.the present correlation has been compared with the heat transfer coefficient correlations in the literature.

In this paper, numerical solution of beta-type Stirling engine was presented considering its non-ideal regenerator. To this end, the second-order model including heat and power losses was used. Then, a numerical code was applied for calculating geometrical and physical optimum values of the engine. To confirm the obtained results, the physical and geometrical parameters of the GPU-3 engine were...

Different traditional and advanced control strategies have been tested and the performance investigated, revealing their incentives. The investigated control approaches are: conventional decentralized PID control, MPC control based on analytical model, MPC based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC). Comparative control results are shown for the multivariable c...

This paper presents the exergy analysis and optimization of the Stirling engine, which has enormous potential for use in the renewable energy industry as it is quiet, efficient, and can operate with a variety of different heat sources and, therefore, has multi-fuel capabilities. This work aims to present a method that can be used by a Stirling engine designer to quickly and efficiently find nea...