Investigation of Acoustic Streaming in a Thermoacoustic-Stirling Heat Engine

Duthil, Patxi; Bretagne, E.; Wu, Jianfeng; François, M.X.; Li, Qiang

doi:10.1016/b978-008044559-5/50090-9

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“…Stirling engines are externally heated, closed-cycle regenerative machine with the theoretical thermal efficiency equal to that of Carnot cycle [1][2] , and have great application prospects in the field of military and civilian, especially an ideal power generator under some special environment. Generally, free piston Stirling engine is used for space station and aerospace, output power of which varies in the range of Watt to kilo-Watt.…”

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Key Techniques for Designing Free Piston Stirling Engine

Jia

Guo

Cheng

et al. 2012

2012 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference

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In order to satisfy the requirement of power system for deep-space exploration, key issues for designing free piston Stirling engine were analyzed. With the thermodynamic and kinetic coupling designing ideas, we designed a set of free piston Stirling engine whose output power is 100W at operating pressures 8bar, hot space temperatures 700K, and cold space temperatures 300K, operated at 50Hz with helium as working media. Fin structure was selected for heater and cooler to increase heat exchange area and improve heat transfer performance. Temperature distribution of the engine was analyzed. The calculated results indicated that hot space and cold space temperature kept constant value, and the regenerator had a higher temperature gradient. Clearance seal technology was used in piston sealing. Influence of temperature distribution on the deformation of the clearance seal structure was calculated, and the simulation results show that the maximum radial thermal deformation was 90μm at the hot end of the displacer, and the maximum axial thermal deformation was 149μm at the hot end of the regenerator shell.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%