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- Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:09 pm
- Forum: Power-producing Stirling Engines
- Topic: stainless steel heater tubes
- Replies: 1
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Response to stainless steel heater tubes
What about flared ends, like on hydraulic tubing?
- Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: Power-producing Stirling Engines
- Topic: electric bike
- Replies: 8
- Views: 31407
Response to electric bike
Hey, It's me again. I checked Sunpowers website. The EE-80 is 95 Watts output, 3.7kg (8.1lbs), 193mm long (7.5 inches), and 69mm diameter (2.7 inches) Oh yeah, that would work!
- Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:14 pm
- Forum: Power-producing Stirling Engines
- Topic: electric bike
- Replies: 8
- Views: 31407
Response to electric bike
<t>Hi Mike! Perhaps one, or a small group of free piston Stirling generators would do the trick? Sunpower Inc. has the EE-80 and EE-80-H generators that are about 100 watt output. I don't know about their size, but 2 of those would get the power output you're looking for. A small campstove propane t...
- Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:29 pm
- Forum: Power-producing Stirling Engines
- Topic: Stirling engines need large temperature differentials, but...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 58703
Response to Stirling engines need large temperature differentials, but...
<t>I'm in the same boat as you. I am simply an enthusist and hardly an expert on anything. You are correct in that most of the old steam engines worked on an open cycle, as opposed to a closed cycle like in the Stirling. A Stirling using steam as the working fluid would work, but keeping the tempetu...
- Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:14 am
- Forum: Power-producing Stirling Engines
- Topic: Stirling engines need large temperature differentials, but...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 58703
Response to Stirling engines need large temperature differentials, but...
<t>The problem with useing water (Or steam as the case may be), is that to turn water from ambient (room) temp to 100deg c (boiling) takes a lot of energey. This is called SPECIFIC ENTROPY. By useing a gas as the working fluid (air, co2, nitogen, or whatever), you avoid this problem. That is the pri...