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An Analysis Model Combining Gamma-Type Stirling Engine and Power Converter

Energies, 2019
Waste heat is a potential source for powering our living environment. It can be harvested and transformed into electricity. Ohmic heat is a common type of waste heat.
Hua-Ju Shih
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Design and heat transfer optimization of a 1 kW free-piston stirling engine for space reactor power system

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021
The Free-Piston Stirling engine (FPSE) is of interest for many research in aerospace due to its advantages of long operating life, higher efficiency, and zero maintenance.
Zhiwen Dai, Chenglong Wang, Dalin Zhang, Wenxi Tian, Suizheng Qiu, G.H. Su   +5 more
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Overview of free-piston Stirling technology at the NASA Lewis Research Center [PDF]

, 1985
An overview of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center (Lewis) free-piston Stirling engine activities is presented.
Slaby, J. G.
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Magnetically Coupled Free Piston Stirling Generator for Low Temperature Thermal Energy Extraction Using Ocean as Heat Sink

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
The ocean, as one of the largest thermal energy storage bodies on earth, has great potential as a thermal-electric energy reserve. Application of the relatively fixed-temperature ocean as the heat sink, and using concentrated solar energy as the heat ...
Hao Tian, Zezhong Gao, Yongjun Gong
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Optimisation of a Quasi-Steady Model of a Free-Piston Stirling Engine

Energies, 2018
Energy from waste heat recovery is receiving considerable attention due to the demand for power systems that are less polluting. This has led to the investigation of external combustion engines such as the free-piston Stirling engine (FPSE) due to its ...
Ayodeji Sowale, Edward J. Anthony, Athanasios John Kolios   +2 more
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Linear generator design for concentrating solar power technologies: Optimization and prototype development

IET Renewable Power Generation, 2023
An alternative way to generate electricity from solar energy is through the use of generators comprising Stirling engines with a parabolic collector. This study describes a parabolic collector with Stirling engine and investigates the design of a linear ...
Serdal Arslan, Sibel Akkaya Oy
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Overview of NASA Lewis Research Center free-piston Stirling engine activities [PDF]

, 1984
A generic free-piston Stirling technology project is being conducted to develop technologies generic to both space power and terrestrial heat pump applications in a cooperative, cost-shared effort.
Slaby, J. G.
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Design of a Slot-Spaced Permanent Magnet Linear Alternator Based on Numerical Analysis

Energies, 2022
Linear alternators work seamlessly with Free-Piston Stirling Engines (FPSE) in the energy conversion process. This research concentrates on the design and development of a tubular slot-spaced Permanent Magnet Linear Alternator (PMLA) to be coupled with ...
Chin-Hsiang Cheng, Surender Dhanasekaran
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Overview of the 1985 NASA Lewis Research Center SP-100 free-piston Stirling engine activities [PDF]

, 1985
This effort is keyed on the design, fabrication, assembly, and testing of a 25 kWe Stirling space-power technology-feasibility demonstrator engine. Another facet of the SP-100 project covers the status of a 9000-hr endurance test conducted on a 2 kWe ...
Slaby, J.
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Linear Dynamic Analysis of Free-Piston Stirling Engines on Operable Charge Pressure and Working Frequency along with Experimental Verifications

Applied Sciences, 2021
This paper presents a linear dynamic analysis on operable charge pressure and working frequency of free-piston Stirling engines (FPSE) along with experimental verifications. The equations of motion of the FPSE are formulated as a 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF)
Dong-Jun Kim, Kyuho Sim
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