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- Title
Maximum Work of Free-Piston Stirling Engine Generators.
- Authors
Shinji Kojima
- Abstract
Using the method of adjoint equations described in Ref. [1], we have calculated the maximum thermal efficiencies that are theoretically attainable by free-piston Stirling and Carnot engine generators by considering the work loss due tofriction and Joule heat. The net work done by the Carnot cycle is negative even when the duration of heat addition is optimized to give the maximum amount of heat addition, which is the same situation for the Brayton cycle described in our previous paper. For the Stirling cycle, the net work done is positive, and the thermal efficiency is greater than that of the Otto cycle described in our previous paper by a factor of about 2.7-1.4 for compression ratios of 5-30. The Stirling cycle is much better than the Otto, Brayton, and Carnot cycles. We have found that the optimized piston trajectories of the isothermal, isobaric, and adiabatic processes are the same when the compression ratio and the maximum volume of the same working fluid of the three processes are the same, which has facilitated the present analysis because the optimized piston trajectories of the Carnot and Stirling cycles are the same as those of the Brayton and Otto cycles, respectively.
- Subjects
FREE piston engines; STIRLING engines; RESISTANCE heating; BRAYTON cycle; THERMAL efficiency
- Publication
Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0340-0204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jnet-2016-0031