ST-5 Stirling engine (5hp)

[airpower]

The engine in the video was build by a company in Chennai (no longer in business) and designed by https://www.sunpowerinc.com/ (plans not public available)
Doing some village milling work and not running on full power.
https://youtu.be/Pr6BHVhXPtc

To much torque and no longer in operation, replaced by solar tech. Drawing in reference on page 62 is not the ST-5 it is an old design which was developed in Bangladesh before the ST-5
https://youtu.be/QvwO0ZFea70

[staska]

Big like from me for this document.

[airpower]

Japanese model of the ST-5 running with wood chips or rise hulls. Again a lot of vibrations.....
https://youtu.be/xhegYZMjKPw

Much better (Seems to be in Minamisanriku town/region and miyagi university)
https://youtu.be/xQz6-Z8EeE0
Google translate

In March of this year (2012), we delivered a cogeneration system using a Stirling engine that can obtain electricity and hot water using biomass such as thinned wood and waste wood as fuel. This is a stand-alone system that can generate 3kW (max) of electricity and hot water without using any power from the power company. We hope that it will be one of the triggers for recovery from the earthquake.

[airpower]

https://youtu.be/XpqhX_66n18


8 Part series of the "Rice Husk Energy Project" (RHEP), the history of the engine.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... CXP7p5Ge6p

[airpower]

Found the pdf of this thing on the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20190128090 ... Engine.pdf
It's noticable that it is dated as batteries are used as energy storage, a real bad choice. Compressed air storage, cheap, long lasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_re ... ment#ESOEI



Something similar, that seems like some kind of workshop with a neat typical alpha setup so he could do away with all the extra levers..
https://youtu.be/_qVDgVlpJDw