Design of a 1 kW class gamma type Stirling engine

Author

Raggi, Luca ; Katsuta, Masafumi ; Sekiya, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

27 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

991

Abstract

A study of the design of a kinematic drive gamma-type Stirling engine is reported. This heat engine is in the 1 kW class and was conceived for a portable electric generator. The peculiarity of this heat engine is its basic use of components taken from the line production, all of which are simple in terms of material and manufacture. The engine targets are defined in compatibility with the elements taken from a large scale production compressor and then new components like the heat exchangers and the crank mechanism are designed. Two pre-tests are effected: one to define the performances of the induction motor in the electric regenerative mode; and the other running the machine as a refrigerator

Keywords

Stirling engines; compressors; heat exchangers; 1 kW; compressor; crank mechanism; gamma-type Stirling engine; heat engine design; heat exchangers; line production components; performance tests; portable electric generator; Generators; Heat engines; Induction motors; Internal combustion engines; Large-scale systems; Manufacturing; Pistons; Production; Shafts; Stirling engines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1997. IECEC-97., Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4515-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1997.661904

Filename

661904