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A Stirling Engine typically operates:

  • On a closed cycle of compression and expansion
  • With two pistons
  • With three different configurations based on piston configuration
  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • gamma
  • With hot and cold gas regions creating a pressure differential, forcing the pistons to oscillate at nominally 90° out of phase from each other
  • The mechanical oscillation is mechanical energy, which can be converted to electrical energy when coupled with a voice coil.

Publication Date

Summer 2018

Increasing the Efficiency of a Stirling Engine Using Mechanical Resonance

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