Free-Piston Stirling Engine Technologies and Models: A Review [PDF]
Energies, 2021 The Stirling engine is an alternative solution to produce cleaner energy in order to achieve the reduction of the fossil fuel consumption and the CO2 emissions.
Carmela Perozziello +2 more
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Thermodynamic Performance of Heat Exchangers in a Free Piston Stirling Engine [PDF]
Energies, 2018 There is an increasing request in energy recovery systems that are more efficient, environmentally friendly and economical. The free piston Stirling engine has been investigated due to its structural simplicity and high efficiency, coupled with its ...
Ayodeji Sowale, Athanasios J. Kolios
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Investigation on Stability and Performance of a Free-piston Stirling Engine
Energy Procedia, 2014 AbstractThe stable operation of a free-piston Stirling engine will be achieved when both engine configurations and operating conditions are optimum. This paper presents stability and performance investigation of free-piston Stirling engine. Isothermal analysis is considered in the simulation.
Sutapat Kwankaomeng
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Development and validation of a software application to analyze thermal and kinematic multimodels of Stirling engines [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The work developed presents, for the first time, a tool to analyze all the thermodynamic models used in the study and development of Stirling engines: isothermal, ideal adiabatic and adiabatic with losses, combined adiabatic thermodynamic with finite ...
Juan A. Auñón +4 more
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Influences of nonlinear parameters on the performance of a free‐piston Stirling engine
Energy Science & Engineering, 2023 This study presents a thermodynamic–dynamic model of a free‐piston Stirling engine (FPSE) with nonlinear coefficients of spring, load damping, and pressure for working spaces.
Wenlian Ye +4 more
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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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Optimisation of a Quasi-Steady Model of a Free-Piston Stirling Engine [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Performance investigation of an active free-piston Stirling engine using artificial neural network and firefly optimization algorithm [PDF]
HeliyonThe aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of an active Free-Piston Stirling Engine (AFPSE) through the use of machine learning methods. Due to the time-intensive nature of extracting simulation results from complex thermal equations, an ...
A.P. Masoumi +2 more
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Linear Generator for a Free Piston Stirling Engine [PDF]
Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2014 In this paper we present some aspects about the design of a Stirling engine driven linear generator. There are summarised the main steps of the magnetic and electric calculations with application to a particular case of a cogeneration plant bassed on ...
OROS (POP) Teodora Susana +3 more
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Parametric Study on the Performance of Gas Springs in FPSE With Pneumatic Supporting System
Energy Science & EngineeringThe introduction of a pneumatic supporting system composed of gas springs and hydrostatic bearings in the free‐piston Stirling generator (FPSG) can effectively increase the power density of the nuclear space power plant.
Lingxuan Kong +3 more
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