stirling engine homemade tutorial

In this video, i will show you a simple homemade stirling engine by using household materials. A stirling engine is a heat engine working by the cyclic compression and expantion of air. There is a convertion of heat energy to mechanical energy

The essential features of the Stirling engine however are that it is a closed cycle, external combustion engine. This means that it uses a fixed amount of working fluid, usually air, but other gases may be used, enclosed in a sealed container and the heat consumed by the engine is applied externally. This allows the engine to run on just about any heat source including fossil fuels, hot air, solar, chemical and nuclear energy. It can also work with very low temperature differentials, as low as 7°C, between the heat source and the heat sink so that it can be powered by body heat and even the steam from a cup of coffee.

Since it can use heat from a constant flame and does not depend on explosions as in an internal combustion engine, the engine runs silently.

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