www.greenpowerscience.com This is the best off the shelf DIY STIRLING ENGINE start we have come up with so far. This Stirling Engine has shown signs of successful operation. It also works excellent as a Steam Engine. I have another compressor that I am converting into a DC motor:-) These compressors cost about $100 on EBAY. Make sure you buy the compressor pump at a 90 degree angle. This based on the Alpha Stirling Design that you can find here: en.wikipedia.org
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should have done a voice over for the schematic. just an observation
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lots of back ground noise
@veewee7764 Propane? How about HHO? How about a video? The closer Youtube gets to that off the shelf design the better.
does it works?
Great stuff!, I am definately interested in your further experiments with this as a stirling and possibly even more so as a steam engine. Keep ‘em comming!
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Dan,
I am experimenting with one like this, but i actually put a displacer and hot cap on one of the cylinders. It will almost run with a propane torch, but I am thinking it’ll need more heat. Also, the one I have is a two-stage type, meaning that one cylinder is larger than the other. That could be a problem as well. . . I’ll get pictures and post so you can get the idea.
@sailingsolar but the problem that I am reading about it the steel/cast is hydrogen permiable. The hydrogen will leak through the steel and eithercould catch on fire or need constant refilling. helium would be better.
@easymac79 Remember that heat and temperature aren’t the same thing. The bigger the engine, the more energy you need to raise the temperature of the working gas up. Another consideration is power delivery; it takes energy to swish air back and forth in the engine, but the fresnel lens might not deliver sufficient energy *in time* to make the engine work. Stirlings are not at all easy engines to get working.
well i think the channel is pretty cool, it opens peoples eyes to the world around them, and what is possible with a little thought and curiosity.
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you should study Charles and boyles laws for exspanding gases PV=nrT
your problem is that the corridor for air passage from one cylinder to the other is too big there must be restriction to form a vaccume
Hi Dan, have found your videos very informative, currently researching building a wind generator for myself and a water turbine for a friend using all recycled components, and looking to make a stirling engine for myself just for fun, have had my head in many scrap metal skips looking for parts, doing well so far, having problems finding your follow on videos on the stirling engines can you give me any advice please, thanks Nigel Cox
Hi Dan, have found your videos very informative, currently researching building a wind generator for myself and a water turbine for a friend using all recycled components, and looking to make a stirling engine for myself just for fun, have had my head in many scrap metal skips looking for parts, doing well so far, having problems finding your follow on videos on the stirling engines can you give me any advice please, thanks Nigel Cox
cooool
Hmm, I’ve seen binary cycle geothermal power plants. I guess you could take heat water with solar power and get the same effect. Wonder what kind of acreage you would need to generate 50-100 Megawatts. SEGs take about 1600 Acres but I think they’re only using steam.
Solar? I’d power it with wood gas then you would have plenty of cheap power no matter what the whether!
@easymac79 im wondering the same
Have you think of attaching a gasifier on this engine?
@easymac79 It is enough, the piston rings were the problem.
@anfiach I was thinking of it more as this is what it should be used for, but it requires an external energy source. I forgot that he had modified it.
You could mount it to an adjustable stand, like his motorcycle stand and place it at various points in the focus so as to reduce the intensity but keep the high level of heat.
That kind of intensity would compromise the casing and could be dangerous. The problem is applying a high level of heat for a significant amount of time at a low intensity. Another problem is that a compressor has fins built in for air cooling thus reducing the amount of heat that is transferred to the interior of the engine. Most of it radiates away.
I have seen you melt concrete, how is that not enough heat for this engine?!
@caboflyguy WORKING ON IT, actually there is a follow up
watch?v=UajnWVBe0qA
It works, just not great. This design has promise but is not as simple as the wikipedia drawings. I regards to not answering and or cashing out, we get about 150 comments a day on all videos. I spend most of the time censoring &%## comments, it is Youtube after all. Keep in mind we are not just a Stirling engine channel, do not own a machine shop and do videos between work and clouds.