Need Stirling Engine Engineers in Dallas Area

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m35txxxx
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First Name: Lee
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Need Stirling Engine Engineers in Dallas Area

Post by m35txxxx »

I have moved to Dallas recently. I am looking for the mechanical
types to help design and build electric power generation systems using
Sterlings as the engine. The system I am working on will have both
active heating and cooling components designed to produced about a 800
to 1000 degree temperature difference in large amounts/volumes of
air/gas. The hot side would have high temp of around 800/900 degrees
with the cold side way down in the sub zero range. I would like to
find people in the area that have built Stirling engines of the
various kinds, we can then begin to experiment and design systems
using my heating and cooling processes. We can start off with systems
with much less temp variance to save on design and material issues.

I am not overly mechanical, but I have ran across some technologies
(some old and some new) that I feel when all are applied together will
easily produce a total energy storage and conversion system that will
economically provide the fuel for home, industrial and commercial
sized power generation facilities. The key to my plan is quite
important - there are no costly consumables. The cost will be the
building materials, engine and sub-system parts and construction. The
fuel source is a combination of solar and OTHER. The active cold
process is actually a ancient one that uses some relatively abundant
natural materials and mechanical processes to create very cold
temperatures.

Well I hope I have peaked someones interest. I just have no skill or
tools to build any of the mechanical or engine parts. It is my hope
someone in the Dallas area, who loves to build Stirling engines, will
reply and we and discuss how to build a working test system.

Thank you in advance:
Lee
rgmco
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Post by rgmco »

Lee- What you hope to do is beyond the scope of anyone other than a handful of very experienced Stirling engine experts. It sounds simple, but is, in fact, very difficult. You know the old saying- if it were simple, everyone would have done it by now. You might be interested in our company's website- www.rgpsystems.com- which describes the state of a nearly ten-year quest to design and develop an industrial-scale Stirling to utlize low quality, waste process heat to produce power. We will be demonstrating a "bench model" (potentially capable of about 50kW) of our proprietary engine next month for a few friends. We may make that available to others by CD. Your heat/cold sources sound interesting and could be of interest to us.

Dick
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Post by richar18 »

Hi Lee, I am assuming you are interested in a Stirling Engine of high efficiency (in the 35-40% ballpark), inexpensive design, and high power density? This is a very difficult combination indeed, as Dick has stated. It can be done however (just look at a Sunpower or STM engine), and I have been working on a new design that should give the performance of the aforementioned engines; however using a much simpler and more inexpensive package. The novel heat exchanger design of this new engine would work perfectly with a heated gas as you have with your device. One question - are the temperatures you stated in your post in Celsius or Fahrenheit? you can reach me at
Brandonr9945@yahoo.com if you would like to know more about my engine. I am definitely curious about your thermal generation device! Looking forward to hearing from you,
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