What Are the Five Parts of the Stirling Engine?
the power image by Rich Johnson from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/qv/fu/five-parts-stirling-engine_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Stirling engines operate on a simple theory of physics. Stirling engines rely on external heat to expand a fixed amount of air in a sealed chamber. Because the expanding air, or “working gas,” is unable to escape the chamber, pressure builds. This pressure is a Stirling engine’s life blood. It is the source of its ability to perform work via the “Stirling cycle.” This process involves compressing cool air, heating that air, using its expansion to do work, then cooling it again and repeating the cycle. To understand the phenomenon more clearly, it’s important to understand its five vital components. External Heat External heat can be anything that produces heat that does not also damage the engine. Some smaller engines can run on the body heat of the person holdi
