Title :
Testing of the STM4-120 kinematic Stirling engine for solar thermal electric systems
Author :
Linker, Kevin L. ; Adkins, Douglas R. ; Rawlinson, K. Scott
Author_Institution :
Sandia Nat. Lab., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
The STM4 120 is being bench-tested at Sandia´s engine test facility and will be combined later with a solar receiver for on-sun evaluation. The test system layout, instrumentation, controls, testing parameters, and preliminary performance results for the STM4-120 are presented. Ten hours of operation have been carried out and used to check out the facility. These preliminary results indicate that the engine is performing to specifications
Keywords :
heat engines; solar absorber-convertors; test facilities; testing; thermoelectric conversion; STM4-120 kinematic Stirling engine; heat engines; instrumentation; performance; solar absorber-convertors; solar receiver; solar thermal electric systems; test facility; testing; thermoelectric conversion; Costs; Heat engines; Kinematics; Laboratories; Pistons; Solar heating; Stirling engines; System testing; Test facilities; US Department of Energy;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74784
