STM4-120 Stirling engine test development
Stirling Thermal Motors, Inc. (STM) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been developing and testing a general purpose, 40 kW Stirling engine designated the STM4-120. This engine configuration features a heat pipe heater head designed to receive heat from the condensing metal vapor (sodium, Na) of a heat pipe using any one of a variety of heat sources. Several quarter-scale models of this evaporator design have been fabricated and successfully demonstrated. This paper describes the test hardware, the performance and related problems of the engine and heat pipe systems. Plans for future development and testing are outlined and include a heat pipe solar receiver supported by the DOE Solar Thermal Program.
- OSTI ID:
- 5652243
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-890240--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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