Engines, Engines, and More Engines!
Presented by Eric Jensen and Collin Lichtenberger
Engines are everywhere, in our society today we depends
on engines everyday, to perform variety of different tasks, from our needs
of transporation in trains and cars, to our blenders that prepare our food.
In this website you will find a detailed description of the sterling engine,
which is a simple form of engine similar to the ones found in everyday
life.
Every engine works on the same basic concept: they
take heat energy and turn it into work. The stirling engine does
precisely this. A simple stirling engine has two pistons, in contact
with a sealed resevoir of gas. One piston is in contact with hot
gas and the other with cooled gas. The heat energy is put into the
system by heating the gas on the hot side, work is done by the pistons,
and the heat energy which has not been converted to work is expelled on
the cooled side. We will explore this process in greater detail further
on.
History of the Sterling Engine
How the Sterling Engine Works
Ideal Engines
Commonly Used Equations
About the Authors