The Stirling Engine

[fentorydekson]

A 'Stirling Engine' is in the family of heat engines. It is a closed cycle regenerative hot air (or other permanent gas) engine.. Closed cycle means that there is a fixed volume of the 'working fluid' in the system. There is no intake, there is no exhaust.

The Stirling engine was first patented in 1816 by Dr. Robert Stirling. The original patent focused more on 'The Economizer' which was a heat exchange unit that saw primary interest for use as the first incarnation of the solar water heater.

Originally the Stirling engine was developed by Robert Stirling and his brother James. It resulted in many patents and the first Sterling in commercial use was used to pump water in a quarry in 1818. After more development many patents for various improvements, including pressurization, which directly affected the amount of work or force the engine could produce, came about in 1845. By this time, the power output of this engine had been brought up to the level that it could drive all the machinery at a Dundee iron foundry.

 

[johnsberri]

The engine shall be promoted as much fuel savings and was inspired to be a safer alternative to steam engines of the time had many fatal accidents involving exploding boilers.

 

[floresmarteen]

A Stirling engine is a kind of motor, similar to a steam engine, that converts heat energy in to usable power. Stirling pursued his idea with the purpose of competing with the burgeoning steam engine industry. This is different from a steam engine, which makes use of liquid in both gaseous and liquid forms.

 

[symonnstack]

It resulted in abounding patents and the aboriginal Sterling in bartering use was acclimated to pump baptize in a quarry in 1818.

 

[ronaldsdek]

It resulted in abounding patents and the ancient Sterling in bartering use was acclimated to pump admit in a quarry in 1818.

 

[celinaaniston86]

The Stirling engine was created in 1816, before the gasoline & Diesel-powered applications. A Stirling engine can use any type of fuel, as well as solar energy & hot spring heat.

 

[alexisrois]

Stirling engines can run directly on any available heat, source, not just one produced by combustion, so they can run on heat from solar, biological, geothermal energy, nuclear resources or waste heat from industrial procedures.

 

[maxxypane]

Stirling engines can use any external heat source, in contrast to internal combustion engines that needs fuel that can be used in an burned in an confined space or a turbine that needs adding heat to a moving fluid which is not very efficient unless you are burning something.

 

[Alfiecason]

A Stirling motor is an external combustion motor, like a vapour motor. This means that all of the engine's heat goes in and out through the partition of the engine, from an external heat source. But different a steam engine, which benefits water in both fluid and gas pattern, Stirling engines use only the gas forms of liquids such as hydrogen, helium or oxygen.

 

[nicksrobby]

The Stirling engine uses the warmth difference between its hot end and cold end to set up a cycle of a repaired mass of gas increasing and contracting inside the engine, therefore altering thermal power into mechanical power. The larger the temperature difference between the warm and freezing causes, the greater the promise Carnot cycle efficiency.

 

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