Mankind has achieved remarkable social development following the Industrial Revolution. Then, we have depended on fossil fuels for much of its energy needs. As a result, a global warming caused by the massive consumption of fossil fuels has recently come up to the surface. And the number of natural disasters caused by it is on the increase. In this background, a Stirling engine has attracted attention because of an ability to utilize a wide variety of heat source which were previously unused.
The goal of this research is the operating a Stirling engine by using low-temperature heat source such as snow and ice. We aimed at improvement in a running performance by cooling the cooler of a Stirling engine uniformly in this experiment. Therefore, we manufactured the water jacket newly and ran a coolant. By cooling a cooler uniformly, a Stirling engine using low temperature heat source worked long time. Furthermore, we introduce the power generation method “Triboelectric Nanogenerator” using the small torque of a Stirling engine in this report.
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