Stirling engines have been developed in various configurations and sizes for numerous applications, ranging from hobby-size kit engines powered by the heat of the human hand to automobile engines ...

In order to create a microscopic version of a Stirling engine, the researchers sandwiched a tiny, 2.94 μm melamine bead in a 4 μm water gap between glass slides. Heat was added and removed by ...

A coolant (a sodium potassium mixture) flows through the passageways between the tubes, picks up the thermal heat produced by the reacting uranium, and transfers the heat to the Stirling engine.

Many of us have read about Stirling engines, engines which form mechanical heat pumps and derive motion from the expansion and contraction of a body of air. A very few readers may have built one ...

Stirling’s original engine worked, as do tiny demonstration models that run on the heat from the palm of one‘’’s hand. But the materials and technology to construct an affordable and ...

In 1816, engineer Robert Stirling invented his proprietary Stirling engine, an automatic power source operated by ambient heat rather than direct fuel sources like an internal combustion engine ...

The model Stirling engine is a staple of novelty catalogues, and we daresay that were it not for their high price there might be more than one Hackaday reader or writer who might own one. All is ...

Learn about the unique Stirling engine bike, a groundbreaking innovation in green transportation powered by air temperature differences.

Because of the low heat content in the exhaust of a Stirling engine it has only a small potential for further waste heat recovery. SAE International is a global association of more than 128,000 ...

THE Stirling engine, the brainchild of a 19th-century Scottish clergyman, is an invention that seems cursed by the gods of innovation neither to succeed nor to fail comprehensively and thus be ...