Summary

Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2013

Session Number:A4L-A

Session:

Number:134

Synchronized Motion of Coupled Stirling Engines

Hisashi Kada,  Hiromasa Hojyo,  Isao T. Tokuda,  

pp.134-137

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.2.134

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Because of an increasing demand on electric power and limited resources for conventional fuels, highly efficient engine that is capable of converting energy resource to electric power with a small loss is awaited. In this respect, Stirling engine provides a strong potential, because of its efficient thermodynamic cycle close to a theoretical limit of Carnot cycle. The paper presents experimental study of synchronized dynamics in coupled two Stirling engines. It is shown that synchronized operation of the population of engines provides a key technology to extend the system size so as to produce a large-scale electric energy.

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