Air Engines

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Air Engines is a comprehensively illustrated, self containedand readable account of the evolution of the air engine, of itsmany applications of the latest techniques of design and of futureapplications. Air Engines spans the entire subject frompreviously undisclosed technical details of Robert Stirling'soriginal inventions of 1816 through to engines designed and under construction in 2001. Thesimplest treatment yet published of the regenerator allows optimumdesign (wire diameter and mesh number) to be read from charts interms of proposed operating conditions (pressure and rpm). Air Engines will be considerable interest to all thoseinvolved with prime movers, power generation, Stirling and airengines. Additionally engineers dealing with the variousapplications of the thermal regenerator, with energy efficiency and with conservation issues will find thisexcellent volume of value. COMPLETE CONTENTS: * Air engines * The Stirling engine * Later single-cylinder Stirling engines * The Philips engines * Modern knowledge ... and all that * Reassessment * Post-revival * The regenerator problem * Two decades of optimism * Thermodynamic design * Completing the picture * By intuition - or by design? The heyday to come * In praise of Robert Stirling.

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Theodor Finkelstein

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