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Smart Stirling Engine for Educational Labs

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Smart Stirling Engine for Educational Labs AS-SMART

DESCRIPTION

The Smart Stirling Engine is intended for engineering, physics, and thermodynamics classes at either the advanced high school, or university level. It enables teachers to provide a high-quality lab experience for students.

The engine is electrically heated for accurate power input measurements (which also keeps fumes out of the lab) and is cooled by air or water. It has built-in pressure, temperature, and angular position sensors, and a data acquisition system to allow sensed data to be sent to a Windows PC where it can be plotted and analyzed. A variable voltage DC power supply is available as an option if your lab needs one to power the electrical heating elements.

Stirling engines are heat engines that make exceptionally good teaching tools. Not only does the Stirling Cycle match the Carnot cycle for efficiency, but also real Stirling engines can be made to run on low temperature differences. This ability to run on low temperature differences makes them well suited for use in laboratories.

Acquired data is sent to the computer over a USB cable, rather than over a serial cable, which is much more in keeping with today's computers. Data acquisition and analysis software has been written from scratch, and includes many new built-in features, including:

automatic generation, display, and evaluation of pressure/volume (P/V) graphs;
automatic computation of indicated power using the P/V graphs;
a built-in software dynamometer, computing power and torque using the rate at which the engine spins up the flywheel;
ability to save acquired data both for later re-display and analysis, as well as for transfer to Excel; and
ability to compute figures of merit (power, RPM, etc) for a series of experiments, and send the summary to Excel.

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