A10 Development of Waste Heat Recovery Stirling Engine System for Electric Propulsion Ship : 2nd Report, Basic Performance of Stirling Engine on Bench Test

Abstract

We have tried to develop a marine heat recovery system with a Stirling engine generator since 2005. The Stirling engine operates with exhaust gas from a marine Diesel engine as the heat source. From 2010, in order to set a waste heat recovery system to an electric propulsion ship, a 3 kW class waste heat recovery Stirling engine has been developed. In this paper, we report the experimental results of the Stirling engine on bench tests.