Power-Optimized Sinusoidal Piston Motion and Its Performance Gain for an Alpha-Type Stirling Engine with Limited Regeneration

The recuperation of otherwise lost waste heat provides a formidable way to decrease the primary energy consumption of many technical systems. A possible route to achieve that goal is through the use of Stirling engines, which have shown to be reliable and efficient devices. One can increase their pe...

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Main Authors: Mathias Scheunert, Robin Masser, Abdellah Khodja, Raphael Paul, Karsten Schwalbe, Andreas Fischer, Karl Heinz Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/17/4564