06-05-2013, 03:14 PM
SINGLE CYLINDER STIRLING ENGINE ABSTRACT
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ABSTRACT:
A Stirling Engine is a heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas,the working fluid at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical energy. The single cylinder stirling engine seems to be simple this type of stirling engine known as the BETA CONFIGURATION^3,consists of one cylinder with a hot and a cool end.The working substance is the Hot air is transferred from one end of the cylinder to other by a device called displacer(material Tauflon ).The displacer is a piston whose diameter is smaller than the gas tube its movement does not alter the volume of gas in the cylinder it just transfers the air within the gas tube.There are four phases in the stirling engine cycle they are Expansion,Transfers,Contraction,Transfer.And the glass cylinder is heated with the help of a spirit and the hot air expands driving the piston outward rotating the fly wheel and hot air transferred to cool end by the piston or displacer and cool.