LAPSE:2023.26190
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LAPSE:2023.26190
Power-Optimized Sinusoidal Piston Motion and Its Performance Gain for an Alpha-Type Stirling Engine with Limited Regeneration
March 31, 2023
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 performance by optimizing the piston motion. Here, it is investigated to which extent the cycle averaged power output can be increased by using a special class of adjustable sinusoidal motions (the AS class). In particular the influence of the regeneration effectiveness on the piston motion is examined. It turns out that with the optimized piston motion one can achieve performance gains for the power output of up to 50% depending on the loss mechanisms involved. A remarkable result is that the power output does not depend strongly on the limitations of the regenerator, in fact—depending on the loss terms—the influence of the regenerator practically vanishes.
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efficiency, endoreversible thermodynamics, irreversibility, Optimization, piston motion optimization, power, stirling engine
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Scheunert M, Masser R, Khodja A, Paul R, Schwalbe K, Fischer A, Hoffmann KH. Power-Optimized Sinusoidal Piston Motion and Its Performance Gain for an Alpha-Type Stirling Engine with Limited Regeneration. (2023). LAPSE:2023.26190
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Scheunert M: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany [ORCID]
Masser R: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Khodja A: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Paul R: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Schwalbe K: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Fischer A: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Hoffmann KH: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Masser R: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Khodja A: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Paul R: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Schwalbe K: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Fischer A: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Hoffmann KH: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
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Energies
Volume
13
Issue
17
Article Number
E4564
Year
2020
Publication Date
2020-09-03
ISSN
1996-1073
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