Abstract
The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, and the huge tsunami that followed brought with it great suffering in areas along the east coast of the Tohoku region. In this region, the process of recovery and reconstructing is still ongoing, but piles of wasted woody biomass have been stacked up everywhere. We have been considering and attempting to determine a productive use of such waste wood biomass. In this background, we focus on a free piston Stirling engine in which high-efficient power generation is possible in the low temperature heat source such as the wood stove. We tried to recover the waste heat by using the small free piston Stirling engine in this study. In this report, the results of the basic performance tests of the free piston Stirling engine are reported.
