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The invention is old, Stirling Hot Air engines were popular in the 19th century
Inventor Robert Stirling, Scotland Stirlings Hot Air Engine 1816 Simple, biomass heated, used in agriculture
The function of a Stirling engine is based on heating up and cooling down a gas
The gas is heated and expands moving the piston downwards The gas is cooled and shrinks moving the piston upwards
Heat supply
Cooling
With two cylinders, the effect of pressure variation can be used in an engine
Expansion
Compression
Heat supply
Regenerator Expansion cylinder
Cooling
Compression cylinder
The Otto- or Diesel- cycle is open, the Stirling cycle is closed, prenting it from contamination which increases life time and serive interwalls
Otto Open cycle with internal combustion and air as working gas
Stirling Closed cycle with external heat source and internal working gas
1. Expansion cylinder 2. Gas heater 3. Regenerator 4. Gas cooler 5. Compression piston 6. Crankshaft
We offer two products, the Dish Stirling Engine as well as a Gas Powered Stirling Engine (combined heat & power - CHP)
Dish Stirling Engine Gas Powered Stirling Engine (CHP)
9 kW
26 kW
The Biogas fermentation installation in is build in just a few days due to the simple construction and ability to use existing infrastructure
Biogas installation at dairy farm in Belgium
Gas Stirling Engine produces electricity and heat using lower quality gas enabling a less complicated and therefore less costly installation
Gas Stirling Engine already today produces electricity without any purification or upgrading of the biogas The installation makes it easy for farmers to produce heat and electricity right at the source without transportation of the manure to a large facility Most of the infrastructure is already in place at a modern dairy farm and most of the equipment can be recognized by the farmer from what is already used.
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In most European countries government subsidies are available, both the installation cost as well as ongoing tariffs on the biogas/power produced. The rest product is a manure with less odor and better nutrition value than the unprocessed manure similar to fertilizers produced from fossilize fuels.
In Sweden alone, it is estimated that a staggering 3TWh could be exploited from fermenting of manure*.
The Biogas fermentation installation in is build in just a few days due to the simple construction and ability to use existing infrastructure
Biogas installation at dairy farm in Belgium
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1. Combustion unit 2. Generator 3. Expansion tank 4. Exhaust gas heat exchanger (NG version only) 5. Control panel 6. Pressurized working gas tank 7. Working gas valves 8. Oil filter 9. Oil pan 10. Power connector 11. Main circuit breaker 12. Top cover 13. Electrical connection box 14. Burner fan 15. Circulation pump 16. Plate Heat Exchanger 17. Fuel gas valves
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A major international gas company has installed the Natural Gas engine to power the gas pipeline since it is more reliable, more efficient and needs less maintenance than all known alternatives
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Dish Sterling Engine can be installed in single units for rural off - grid power generation or in large scale utility solar parks
Single Unit Installation Solar Park Installation
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There are two main types of solar energy technologies Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Photo Voltaic (PV) with a number of sub technologies
Solar Energy Technologies
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Photo Voltaic (PV)
Silicon Based Central Receiver Linear Fresnel Parabolic Trough Dish Engine Concentrated PV (CPV) PV
Thin Film
Efficiency:
12%*
10%*
15%*
25%*
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13%*
Dish Stirling Engine produces electricity with the lowest cost per kWh compared to any other solar energy system and has the longest track-record
Dish Stirling Engine already today produces electricity at a cost of less than 10 cent per kWh Long term, the cost is expected to decrease to less than 5 cent per kWh No other solar energy system may compete at these cost levels including PV and Stirling competitors At <5 cent per kWh Dish Stirling Engine will compete with wind power and nuclear power If carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental costs would be taken into consideration Dish Stirling Engine may be the most cost efficient way to produce electricity compared to any other source of energy (less nuclear energy) Dish Stirling Engine has the longest track record of any other Stirling based solar energy technology -
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Today, the Dish Stirling Engine has a sun conversion efficiency rate of 25% almost twice the efficiency of PV which is much more mature
Industry Maturity
Time
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The Dish Engine peaks during a longer period why Production Cost per kWh (/kWh) is a more relevant measurement showing the actual profitability of a project
Output Effect Comparison between PV and the Dish Stirling Engine
The Dish Stirling Engine peaks during a longer period of the day PV only peaks at shorter mid-day time slots Photo Voltaic solutions degenerates peak output effect decreases by up to 1% per year
kW
Dish Engine
Photo Voltaic
Snapshot view of our company illustrates important product and market characteristics necessary for a rapid market deployment
Status
Stirling engine
>140 engines installed to date
Commercial capability
Legislative and customer demand for efficient solar power technologies Products are ready for the market
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Engine independently tested during 19992005 Proven 25% efficiency and high availability
Sandia National Labs* and the French "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" have both conducted extensive testing with excellent results
Over 24 000 hours were accumulated by the Sandia engineers and CNRS testing the solar application The results show peak efficiency of over 25% with high availability and service intervals exceeding 1 800 hours
Eurodish Integration
09/03/2005
DNI [W/m2] 1100 1000
Pression [bar] - Temprature [C] - DNI [W/m2]
Grid parallel
70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1-Sep- 1-Oct01 01 1-Nov- 1-Dec01 01 1-Jan02 1-Feb- 1-Mar02 02
PrBot [bar] PrEng [bar]
TRecMax [C]
TRecGaz [C]
Solar Input
Electric output
Receiver temperature
1-Jul02 1-Aug- 1-Sep02 02
7000 6000
Date
Through supplier quality assurance processes the service intervals will be doubled in volume production In addition, the Stirling Engine, as used in both the solar and gas application, has almost two Million hours of operational experience with gas heated Combined Heat and Power plants (CHP) Service free operating times for Gas Stirling Engine have reached 4 000 6 000 hours Unlike for many of our competitors, product development is completed, the products have been tested and approximately 150 units have been sold to date
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Bottle pressure
Eurodish Integration
09/03/2005
Production brute [kWe] 13 12 11 10
Puissance lectrique [kWe]
Engine pressure
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Heure [h] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Power output
24 22
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
750
BILAN MENSUEL AVRIL 2005 Efficiency Cumul horaire DNI>120 W/m2 14 12340 Cumul horaire DNI>350 W/m2 12 10111 Cumul horaire DNI>700 W/m2 6208 Cumul horaire DNI>900 W/m2 10 3057 Each dot represents a Cumul horaire disponibilit 19422 actual measurement, taken 8 Fraction horaire disponibilit absolue (rf: 24h) 43,5 all overCumul horaire production 6 the day 9328 Morning start and evening Fraction horaire production (rf: DNI>350 W/m2) 92,3 4 go down give slightly sur parabole (DNI>120 W/m2) Energie incidente 5779 Densit 135 different lines nergtique incidente 2 Energie incidente utile (DNI>350W/m2) 5419 0 Energie collecte 4763 800 850 Fraction utilisation nergtique 900 950 1000 1050 1100 87,9 Energie produite brute 931 Facteur de capacit absolu (rf: 24h) 13,0 Rendement mensuel de production brut 16,1 Rendement de production maximum atteint 23,5 Rendement mensuel utile brut 17,2 Rendement mensuel de conversion brut 19,6 Energie produite nette 865 Rendement mensuel de production net 15,0 Rendement mensuel utile net 16,0 Rendement mensuel de conversion net 18,2
Rendement [%]
soit: 155 Operating h 28 mn from investigated Solo Stirling time CHP units 2002- 2007
Minutes Minutes Minutes Minutes Minutes % Minutes % kWh kWh/m2 kWh kWh % kWh % % % % % kWh % % %
h h h h h
40 31 28 57 42
mn mn mn mn mn
Our stirling engine offers an extensive track record and is one of few commercially available Stirling engine. More than 140 units sold to date
Europe ROW
USA
Pakistan
Iran
S. Korea
Brazil
Picture illustrates installed sun and gas units with certain installations consisting of multiple units
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