A01 Operating characteristics of a small size Stirling engine driven by a low temperature difference
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This paper refers to the operating characteristics of a compact Stirling engine capable of recycling waste heat and operating at low temperature differences. Recently, from the perspective of global environmental protection and energy saving, waste heat recovery and its reuse are matters of increasing public concern. However, the required temperature level of recyclable waste heat is rather high, and reuse of waste heat of relatively low temperature of about 200℃ emitted from general plants, etc., is teclmically difficult. For the purpose of recovering and recycling such energy that is wasted unused, a compact Stirling engine capable of operating at low temperature differences has been designed and manufactured on an experimental basis. The basic performance of the prototype has been experimentally verified and evaluated with good results, which are reported in this paper.
