Air engines: the history, science, and reality of the perfect engine

The original Air Engines (also known as a heat, hot air, caloric, or Stirling engines), predated the modern internal combustion engine. This early engine design always had great potential for high efficiency/low emission power generation. However, the primary obstacle to its practical use in the pas...

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1. Verfasser: Finkelstein, Theodor (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
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Zusammenfassung:The original Air Engines (also known as a heat, hot air, caloric, or Stirling engines), predated the modern internal combustion engine. This early engine design always had great potential for high efficiency/low emission power generation. However, the primary obstacle to its practical use in the past has been the lack of sufficiently heat-resistant materials. This obstacle has now been eliminated due to the higher strength of modern materials and alloys. Several companies in the U.S. and abroad are successfully marketing new machines based on the Air Engine concept. Allan Organ and Theodor Finkelstein are two of the most respected researchers in the field of Air Engines. Finkelstein is considered a pioneer of Stirling cycle simulation. The historical portion of the book is based on four famous articles he published in 1959. The rest of the chapters assess the development of the air engine and put it in the modern context, as well as investigate its future potential and applications
Beschreibung:The 1st 4 chapters are comprised of a series of articles by Finkelstein originally published in the Engineer in 1959. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and indexes
1. Air engines -- 2. The Stirling engine -- 3. Later single cylinder engines -- 4. Philips engines -- 5. Modern knowledge ... and all that -- 6. Reassessment -- 7. Post-revival -- 8. The regenerator problem -- 9. Two decades of optimism -- 10. Thermodynamic design -- 11. Completing the picture -- 12. By intuition, or by design? -- 13. And the heyday to come -- 14. In praise of Robert Stirling -- Appendix. Literary output of Theodor Finkelstein -- References. - System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
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