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Titel:
Design of a mechanical resonator to be coupled to a thermoacoustic stirling-engine
 
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Gepubliceerd door: Publicatie datum:
ECN Efficiency & Infrastructure 1-9-2010
 
ECN publicatienummer: Publicatie type:
ECN-M--10-072 Conferentiebijdrage
 
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7 Download PDF  (298kB)

Gepresenteerd op: ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting and 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada, 1-5 augustus 2010.

Samenvatting:
This paper describes the design of a mechanical resonator for a thermoacoustic Stirling-engine. The engine was previously run with a quarter-wavelength acoustic resonator. The advantage of the mechanical resonator is that it is compact and would dissipate less acoustic power. The mechanical resonator consists of a twin piston-spring assembly moving in opposite phase to cancel vibrations. The system uses flexure springs to suspend the piston in a cylinder leaving a narrow gap between them. The narrow gap acts as a dynamic seal between the fronts and back sides of the piston. Simulation calculations show that the mechanical resonator dissipates 40 % less acoustic power than the acoustic one. This will lead to more useful acoustic power output from the thermoacoustic Stirling-engine. In addition, the size of the system is reduced considerably.


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