Exhaust Manifold Waste Heat Recovery System of a Single Cylinder Engine

Abstract:

The current worldwide trend of rapid economic development and increasing energy requirement in the transportation sector are one of many segments that is responsible for a growing share of fossil fuel usage. Supply and demand for fuel is accelerating prices and eventually will affect availability. The selected contemporary paper will address on how a prototype Stirling engine capable of reining in waste heat spilling out of the typical engine exhaust and its intensity level to oppose against the tyranny of inefficiency. Stirling engine systems are fuel flexible with respect to source of thermal energy and unprocessed waste heat that resulting in entropy rise can be harvested to power Ancillaries and increase overall efficiency. The preliminary prototype design and methodology follows process, heat to mechanical energy and latter to electrical energy. Experimental verification of analytical data was carried out and presented here. The shortcomings of these methods are highlighted and an alternative approach to solving particulars suggested.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 592-594)
• Pages: 1534-1538
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.592-594.1534
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Neha Tiwari, Appu Kumar Singh*, Tejas Vishwakarma, Harshal Sharma, Mohammed Suhail
• Keywords: Efficiency, Electrical Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harnessing, Stirling Engine, Waste Heat

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