Marble Displacer Stirling Engine

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.

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. In all four stirling engines were attempted at out of which 3 failed. This is a marble displacer stirling engine. The stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal combustion engine in your car.

Youtube user ludic science. Make a simple marble stirling engine video marble stirling engines are simple to make and fun to watch. 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. 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.

This is a marble stirling engine i built from a kit from bengs modellbau. Closed cycle in this context means a thermodynamic. It will teach you a lot of thermodynamic concepts. Yes i know i should have cleaned it before i filmed it but my old eyes didn t see what the nikon p100 sees.

The paper describes attempts at constructing a simple single cylinder stirling engine in a lab and at home using simple equipment and analyses the rationale behind their working.