Sai ganesh
C.Santhosh
R.Shivasudhan
LIST OF JOURNALS
Biomass Stirling engine Dept. of mechanical engineering, Ichinoseki National College of Technology, Japan Multi phase Stirling engine Dept. of mechanical engineering, University of California.
In order to improve the global environment, a new society utilising biomass is considered more environment friendly than our current lifestyle which depends too much on fossil fuels.
A possible advantage of biomass fuel is balance of CO2 in the atmosphere. So it is decided to provide a heat source to a Stirling engine powered by biomass fuels such as wood, saw dust etc.
SCHEMATIC LAYOUT OF A COGENERATION SYSTEM USING THE BIOMASS POWERED STIRLING ENGINE
The burner of the Stirling engine behaves like a high quality biomass burning stove which gives enormous amount of clean heat. Additionally heat is recovered from the cooling water by a simple heat exchanging element called Fan Coil Unit (FCU)
This process of recovering heat from the cooling water itself is called cogeneration
A heat pump (HP) is additionally used to recover even more heat from the cooling water. This improves the system efficiency. The heat recovered is converted to electricity using a special unit called Thermo-Electric conversion module.
In a multiphase Stirling engine each engine is an alpha type Stirling engine that is connected to its neighbouring two engines via its two pistons.
CONSTRUCTION
The main parts of the system are heat exchangers, diaphragm pistons, flexures and actuators. Heat exchangers: A heat exchanger is used to maintain uniform heat transfer characteristics Diaphragm pistons: Pistons that are specially fabricated by casting silicone rubber in custom wax moulds which virtually eliminate friction. Flexures: These are mechanical linkages which connect one engine to the other. Actuators: The actuators assist piston movement and help coordinate all the three pistons
Actuators
CONCLUSIONS
Power was rapidly increased from 3 KW to 12 KW. It was noted that gas spring hysteresis loss was high Gas spring hysteresis: Loss of excessive heat due to difference in temperature.