A stirling engine is a type of heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gases.
The modern stirling engine is a clean and efficient enfine. This is because the heat driving the pistons is supplied from outside the engine and transfered through heat exchanges to the piston volume.
The stirling engine is purely reversible, this means that if you heat and cool the heat exchanger of the engine you get power out or if you provide power to the engine you get heating or coling out of it.
Stirling Cycle
1 . Isothermal expansion- the expansion space is heated externally.
2 . Isochoric heat removal.
3 . Isothermal compression- the compression space is intercooled
4 . Isochoric heat addition.
A working stirling engine
The probable applications
1. In military field- it is possible to use stirling engine as an auxiliary source of electricity for submarine and surface vessel.
2. In domestic field- It is probable that the stirling engine will develop more. this will be a way to make electricity, heat for home and way to produce domestic hot water.
3. An appropriate use of fuel(liq. oxygen or liq. hydrogen) would reduce the risk of pollution in case of an accident.
The stirling engine is purely reversible, this means that if you heat and cool the heat exchanger of the engine you get power out or if you provide power to the engine you get heating or coling out of it.
Stirling Cycle
1 . Isothermal expansion- the expansion space is heated externally.
2 . Isochoric heat removal.
3 . Isothermal compression- the compression space is intercooled
4 . Isochoric heat addition.
A working stirling engine
The probable applications
1. In military field- it is possible to use stirling engine as an auxiliary source of electricity for submarine and surface vessel.
2. In domestic field- It is probable that the stirling engine will develop more. this will be a way to make electricity, heat for home and way to produce domestic hot water.
3. An appropriate use of fuel(liq. oxygen or liq. hydrogen) would reduce the risk of pollution in case of an accident.
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