Helium filled Stirling Engine Running on Heat of the Hand

This is a test run with my first prototype hand built Stirling engine running from the heat of my hand. The pressure chamber contains helium, which offers a slight improvement to performance. This proof of concept design was used to test the theory that one could build a heat-of-the-hand Stirling engine without using a machine shop. The story of this engine has been published in the book, "Three LTD Stirling Engines You Can Build Without a Machine Shop." You can learn more by visiting http://StirlingBuilder.com.

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Education

Tags:

• Heat
• of
• the
• hand
• stirling
• engine
• low
• temperature
• differential
• LTD
• helium

[PyroEvil]

Nice engine !

Engine without helium can run with the heat of your hand ?

[16strings]

@PyroEvil Yes. It will run on heat of the hand with or without the helium. But it does better with it.

[boxa888]

@16strings nice, do you think this would increased a solar sterling engine. theoretically you could build them smaller for the same power output of a normal atmospheric sterling engine. that would be sweet!

[16strings]

@boxa888 Yes. Many solar Stirling engines use helium or hydrogen as the working fluid (gas) inside.

[piespokladowy]

Super!