Stirling Engine Generator Mk4 (Rocket Stove!) Part 1

Building of an easy, cheap and reliable, DIY stirling engine full size model! It will be fired by wood and could be a great stirlingkit if it works!


This is a fun engineering project that I will use to power a generator to provide energy. It will use an efficient rocket stove that burns really hot using wood that will hopefully drive it at great speed! This technology can use any fuel type with the correct burner so is dual fuel as well. I would like to provide plans / stirling engine kit for DIY builds and possibly build machines too.
This is all pivots on being able to produce an easy, cheap and reliable stirling engine! Watch this space…..

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Introduction to the project with some loose objectives and design brief. I’ve already got the heat source available in the form of a rocket stove. This was left over from the last project : ). I quickly changed the flue outlet design and fired it up to see how hot it was and it was scorching!
The Cylinder / piston assembly will be of the diaphragm type and I’ve made a few protypes to test the concept before committing to the real thing. There will be lots of room for experimentation with this.
Now I can start to work out the other elements of the engine,

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