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Currently, Stirling cycle and Rankine cycle heat engines are used to transform the heat energy from solar concentrators into mechanical and electrical energy. The Rankine cycle is used in large-scale solar power plants, and the Stirling cycle can be used for small-scale solar power plants. The Stirling cycle heat engine has many advantages, such as high efficiency, long service life, silent operation, etc. However, the Stirling cycle is good for high temperature differences (up to 700 °C). It demands the use of expensive materials and has problems with lubrication. Its efficiency depends on the efficiency of the heat regenerator. The design and manufacture of a heat regenerator is not a trivial problem because the regenerator has to be placed in the internal space of the engine. It is possible to avoid this problem if the regenerator is placed outside of the internal engine space. To realize this idea, it is necessary to develop the Ericsson cycle heat engine (ECHE). This book’s authors propose a structure of this engine [1]. A computer simulation was designed to evaluate the Ericsson engine parameters, and the obtained results are discussed in this chapter.

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    Tetyana Baydyk & Ernst Kussul

  2. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

    Donald C. Wunsch II

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Baydyk, T., Kussul, E., Wunsch II, D.C. (2019). Heat Engines. In: Intelligent Automation in Renewable Energy. Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02236-5_5

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