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DOE NASA 0372 1; Report; January 1988.
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A free piston Stirling engine coupled to an electric generator or alternator with a nominal 25 kWe power output absorbing thermal energy from a nominal 100 square meter parabolic solar collector and supplying electric power to a utility grid was identified within the DOE Solar Power
A free piston Stirling engine coupled to an electric generator or alternator with a nominal 25 kWe power output absorbing thermal energy from a nominal 100 square meter parabolic solar collector and supplying electric power to a utility grid was identified within the DOE Solar Power
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Development Program at Sandia National Laboratories as a system with economic potential. In response to an RFP for an Advanced Stirling Conversion System (ASCS) MTI proposed a system, based on existing in-house technology, in which a linear alternator is directly coupled to a free piston engine in an hermetically sealed arrangement. MTI received a contract, DEN3-372, from NASA-Lewis with funding from Sandia National Labs in December 1986. This report documents the results of the conceptual design study of an ASCS. A manufacturing cost estimate generated by The Pioneer Engineering Company is summarized in section 2.5. and reported in detail in Appendix V. Show Less