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Development of a solar-powered liquid piston Stirling refrigerator

Langdon-Arms, S; Gschwendtner, M; Neumaier, M
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The objective of this research project is to develop a solar-powered refrigerator in the lower capacity range of up to 5 kW of cooling power. With the use of liquid pistons and one of the most efficient thermodynamic cycles known, the Stirling cycle, this product has the potential to outperform rival solar cooling technologies while providing inexpensive, reliable, quiet, environmentally-friendly, and efficient solar cooling for residential use, due to its straightforward manufacturing, simple design and inert working gas. Presented in this paper are the newest results of the theoretical and experimental investigation into deducing the key design parameters and system configuration of the so called Liquid Piston Stirling Cooler (LPSC), which will lead to optimal performance. Computer models of the complex unconstrained system have been constructed and validated using the modelling software Sage and shown to replicate system behaviour with reasonable accuracy in experiments. The models have been used to predict system improvements and identify limitations imposed by the use of liquid pistons. The results to date provide a unique insight into a relatively little studied area in Stirling research.
Keywords
Stirling Cycle; Refrigeration; Liquid Pistons; Renewable Energy; Solar Heating; Cooling; Free-Pistons; Sage
Date
December 1, 2017
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Energy Procedia, 142 (2017), 570–575
Item Type
Journal Article
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Elsevier
DOI
10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.095
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021735823X
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