Archive for category Stirling engine

How to Measure a Stirling Engine’s Efficiency (video)

Posted by Ovidiu in How to..., Stirling engine, Video on May 21, 2010

The next video shows a Stirling engine while working to achieve its best, powered by a 70W light bulb. The poster also shows how he measured various parameters of the engine, like speed, torque, input/output power.

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Panasonic Revives The Stirling Engine For 10 kW Waste Heat Recovery System

Posted by Ovidiu in Stirling engine on May 18, 2010

estir Co., an in-company venture of Panasonic led by Teruyuki Akazawa, thought that it would make a good business reusing the otherwise wasted heat from Panasonic’s plants, and reimplemented Stirling engines, seeking to make them more efficient than ever.

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31% Efficient Stirling Engines Used to Convert 1.5MW of Arizona Solar Power

Posted by Cristi in Solar Power, Stirling engine on January 2, 2010

Stirling engines are known to mankind for about 200 years but they are not so widely used today, except maybe for the pacemakers and long-distance robotic spacecrafts. This will soon change as 60 stirling engines will be used in Phoenix, Arizona, to harvest solar power which will be converted into electricity.

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NASA Planning to Use Nuclear Powered Stirling Engine for Moon Base

Posted by Ovidiu in Nuclear Power, Stirling engine on October 27, 2009

NASA is said to be the forerunner of the newest invented technologies, even before the military puts an eye on them (or sometimes the second to use them). Still, some NASA officials have decided to use an old technology, such as the Stirling engine, to generate electricity on the future moon bases.

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Stirling Engine Solar System Working in Colder and Darker Areas

Posted by Ovidiu in Solar Power, Stirling engine on July 16, 2009

Stirling engines become more and more used and promoted among alternative energy circles. The interesting fact with them is that they can be fueled by any source of heat, and the cleaner the source is, the better the stirling engine does to the environment.

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SunCatcher’s Stirling-Engine Based Solar Concentrators to Start in 2010

Posted by Mike in Solar Power, Stirling engine on July 10, 2009

Tessera Solar and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have unveiled new designs of their SunCatcher system at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).

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Dean Kamen’s Stirling Engine Hybrid Scooter Runs on Anything

Posted by Ovidiu in Stirling engine on July 1, 2009

The inventor of Segway (you know, those 2-wheeled self-balancing personal transporters you see in touristic cities – I saw one in Rome) is now specializing in Stirling engines – the grandfather of the steam engine and more efficient than current gasoline engines.

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DEKA Revolt: First Hybrid Stirling Engine Car – Powered by Anything!

Posted by Ovidiu in Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Stirling engine on November 11, 2008

Dean Kamen, a UK inventor, has just released to the public a modified electric Ford Th!nk, hacked in his DEKA labs. DEKA is his company located in Manchester Millyard. Kamen’s modified electric car has a Stirling engine onboard, into the trunk. He uses the stirling engine mainly to defrost and heat the car, because the systems doing that are huge power consumers.

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How To Make a Low Temperature Differential (LTD) Stirling Engine

Posted by Ovidiu in Experiments, Stirling engine, Video on April 5, 2008

LTD stirling engines are an interesting idea. They harvest the temperature difference of the environment versus a cold object, and using this they power some pumps.

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How To Build Your Own Stirling Engine Boat At Home!

Posted by Ovidiu in Experiments, How to..., Stirling engine on March 26, 2008

There are many ways for building of a hull, such as using frame of square lumbers or using F.R.P. Here, we build the hull using piled up boards of balsa. This can be built easily, and can stop the water leakage easily.

boat, home made, Stirling engine

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