Design, simulation, and test results of a heat-assisted three-cylinder Stirling heat pump (C-3)
- Kubota Corp., Amagasaki, Hyogo (Japan)
- Clever Fellows Innovation Consortium, Inc., Troy, NY (United States)
- Tokyo Inst. of Tech. (Japan)
This paper describes recent results in a project at KUBOTA to develop a gas engine-driven Stirling heat pump using both engine shaft power and engine exhaust heat source. The design, simulation, and test results of the third prototype three-cylinder machine (C-3) are presented. The three-cylinder machine is modeled as a combination of two Stirling sub-systems, one a power producer and one a heat pump. These have been separately optimized, then jointed into the three-cylinder heat-assisted heat pump case. Shaft power is augmented by thermal power. Performance is effectively controlled by the phase shifting of the third piston to adjust the absorbing of thermal power. The test results of the C-3 prototype machine are given and are shown to compare well with predictions made in the Sage simulation code.
- OSTI ID:
- 351669
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970701-; TRN: IM9927%%194
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 32. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference, Honolulu, HI (United States), 27 Jul - 2 Aug 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the thirty-second intersociety energy conversion engineering conference. Volume 2: Electrochemical technologies, conversion technologies and thermal management; PB: 790 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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