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The air engine : stirling cycle power for a sustainable future /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organ, Allan J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, England : Boca Raton : Woodhead ; CRC Press, 2007.
Series:Woodhead Publishing in mechanical engineering.
Subjects:
Stirling engines.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: A long-overdue appraisal
  • The famous engine that never was
  • What Carnot efficiency?
  • The counter-flow spiral heat exchanger - Spirex
  • A high-recovery-ratio combustion chamber
  • Part 2 Living with compressible flow data
  • The regenerator problem brought down to size
  • The regenerative annulus and shuttle heat transfer
  • The rotating-displacer air engine
  • The strange case of the self-regulating air engine
  • Some light on the inner workings of the thermal lag engine
  • Part 3: Working with the reality of compressible airflow
  • New correlations for old
  • Regenerator thermal analysis - un-finished business
  • Flow passage geometry
  • Beyond the performance envelope
  • For the sceptics
  • Part 4: Some design considerations
  • Scaling - and the neglected art of back-of-the-envelope calculation
  • 'How to make a business out of Stirling engines today'
  • Draft patent specification
  • Crank mechanism kinematics
  • Equilibrium or 'temperature-determined' picture of thermal lag engine
  • Tribal wisdom.