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Established Thermomechanical Heat Engine Cycles

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This chapter describes and discusses the four most common external combustion thermodynamic cycles: Stirling, Brayton, Ericsson, and Rankine. Internal combustion thermodynamic cycles, such as Otto, Diesel, and rocket, will not be considered, because it is impractical to use them for waste heat capture.

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    Steven Percy, Chris Knight, Scott McGarry, Alex Post, Tim Moore & Kate Cavanagh

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Percy, S., Knight, C., McGarry, S., Post, A., Moore, T., Cavanagh, K. (2014). Established Thermomechanical Heat Engine Cycles. In: Thermal Energy Harvesting for Application at MEMS Scale. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9215-3_2

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