Waste Heat Recovery Sterling Engine

Power Generation Solutions (PGS) Engineering, 2013-14

Liaison(s): John Fletcher, Paul Davis
Advisor(s): Ziyad Durón ’81
Students(s): Jason Bluhm (TL-S), Josh Edelman (TL-F), Por Katanyutanon, Varun Kanwar, Huy Nguyen, Julie Zhang (F)

The Power Generation Solutions clinic team is tasked with assisting in optimizing the design of a sterling engine for high-power waste heat recovery applications by constructing a test system for the intended heat engine’s regenerator to test the regenerator performance. This information can then be used to inform future design iterations of the sterling engine to minimize cost without damaging efficiency.