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Environmental concerns are causing commonly used chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants to be phased out of production. The less ozone-depleting HCFC's are regulating. The green house effecting HFC's are also likely to be regulated and banned in the next period. Accordingly, attention is drawn to the Stirling refrigerator, which is a perfect Freon free refrigerator. Moreover, The Stirling cycle has the highest theoretical cycle efficiency corresponding to the value of the Carnot cycle among the proposed thermodynamic cycles. The green house effect by carbon dioxide issue would make better recognizing the importance of efficient use of energy in terms of high energy conservation measures. The authors have designed and developed a 100 W class Stirling refrigerator for household use. And the prototype machine has been integrated with a 100 litter class refrigerator. The operating characteristics of this Stirling unit or the prototype machine have been evaluated. Moreover, the authors evaluated the machine driving engine mode using ultra-low temperature media. As a result, the operational characteristics of the Stirling cycle machine have been clarified with respect to design factors. These results demonstrate that the Stirling cycle machine is one of the promising candidates as a new refrigeration system or a new generation system.
