Linear Stirling Generator Feasibility Study for Distributed Power Generation

Abstract

The Stirling engine was originally patented 1816 by the Reverend Robert Stirling, and was eighteen years before Carnot's ideas were published. It is a reciprocating engine that has proved reversible both practically and, thermodynamically [l]. The ideal Stirling cycle has the Carnot efficiency [2]. The Stirling engine is a closed cycle external combustion engine that employs a gaseous working fluid inside the engine.