Marble Displacer Stirling Engine

A stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by a cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas the working fluid at different temperatures resulting in a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.

Marble displacer stirling engine. More specifically the stirling engine is a closed cycle regenerative heat engine with a permanent gaseous working fluid. In all four stirling engines were attempted at out of which 3 failed. Yes i know i should have cleaned it before i filmed it but my old eyes didn t see what the nikon p100 sees. Marek s hayward marble mantis 2019.

Closed cycle in this context means a thermodynamic. This is a marble stirling engine i built from a kit from bengs modellbau. This is an interesting variation on the stirling engine which uses three glass marbles as the displacer. This is a marble displacer stirling engine.

This is an simple engine which i constructed using simple materials like test tube glass syringe a straw and marble as displacer so enjoy my video. It s also unusual in that it uses a ratchet mechanism instead of a crank to convert the linear motion of the power piston into circular motion of the driving wheel. The stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal combustion engine in your car. It will teach you a lot of thermodynamic concepts.

Invented by robert stirling in 1816 the stirling engine has the potential to be much more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine but today stirling engines are used only in some very specialized applications like in submarines or auxiliary power generators for yachts where.