Stirling cycle refrigerator or engine employing the rotary wanke

Details Stirling cycle refrigerator or engine employing the rotary wanke Stirling cycle refrigerator or engine employing the rotary wanke

1999-04-12

2000-08-29

Capossela, Ronald

Refrigeration

Gas compression, heat regeneration and expansion, e.g.,...

60520, F25B 900

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061090409

ABSTRACT:
A non-reciprocating Stirling-cycle machine which overcomes problems associated with high drive mechanism forces and vibration that seriously hamper reciprocating Stirling-cycle machines. The design employs Wankel rotors instead of the reciprocating pistons used in prior Stirling machines for effecting the compression and expansion cycles. Key innovations are the use of thermodynamic symmetry to allow coupling of the rotating compression and expansion spaces through simple stationary regenerators, and the coordination of thermodynamic and inertial phasing to allow complete balancing with one simple passive counterweight, which is not possible in reciprocating machines. The design can be scaled over a wide range of temperatures and capacities for use as a cryogenic or utilitarian refrigerator or to function as an external heat powered engine.

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