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    The Air Engine: Stirling Cycle Power for a Sustainable Future
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    The Air Engine: Stirling Cycle Power for a Sustainable Future

    By Allan J. Organ

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    Two centuries after the original invention, the Stirling engine is now a commercial reality as the core component of domestic CHP (combined heat and power) – a technology offering substantial savings in raw energy utilization relative to centralized power generation. The threat of climate change requires a net reduction in hydrocarbon consumption and in emissions of 'greenhouse' gases whilst sustaining economic growth. Development of technologies such as CHP addresses both these needs.

    Meeting the challenge involves addressing a range of issues: a long-standing mismatch between inherently favourable internal efficiency and wasteful external heating provision; a dearth of heat transfer and flow data appropriate to the task of first-principles design; the limited rpm capability when operating with air (and nitrogen) as working fluid. All of these matters are explored in depth in The air engine: Stirling cycle power for a sustainable future. The account includes previously unpublished insights into the personality and potential of two related regenerative prime movers - the pressure-wave and thermal-lag engines.
    • Contains previously unpublished insights into the pressure-wave and thermal-lag engines
    • Deals with a technology offering scope for saving energy and reducing harmful emissions without compromising economic growth
    • Identifies and discusses issues of design and their implementation
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateAug 28, 2007
    ISBN9781845693602
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    The Air Engine: Stirling Cycle Power for a Sustainable Future
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    Allan J. Organ

    Allan J. Organ, PhD, Deng, ScD, FIMechE is known internationally for his work on Stirling engines. He is author of some 50 technical papers and four highly regarded texts on regenerative thermal cycles. The material and its treatment reflect experience accumulated over four-and-a-half decades of university research in the UK, Canada and South America.

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