DOE stationary external combustion engine program - Status report
Abstract
It is expected that Stirling engine based energy systems will be available in sizes ranging up to about 10 MWe in the late 1980s. These systems are expected to be environmentally acceptable in that they will have low emissions, low noise, and be esthetically acceptable. It is predicted that these engines will provide substantial energy savings and cost savings while burning coal. Among potential applications of coal fueled plants are total energy plants, integrated community energy systems, industrial cogeneration, small municipal generating facilities, and pumping stations.
- Publication:
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14th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979iece.conf.1120H
- Keywords:
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- Electric Generators;
- Engine Design;
- External Combustion Engines;
- Stirling Cycle;
- Thermodynamic Efficiency;
- Block Diagrams;
- Energy Technology;
- Graphs (Charts);
- Stirling Engines;
- Tables (Data);
- Energy Production and Conversion