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Air engines.

Author(s) : FINKELSTEIN T., ORGAN A. J.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

This book is a comprehensively readable account of the evolution of the air engine, of the many variants of the basic principle, of the methods available for design and of current and future applications. This wide-ranging treatment spans the entire subject from previously undisclosed technical details of Robert Stirling's original invention of 1816 through to engines currently under development. Extract from the table of contents: air engines; the Stirling engine; later single cylinder engines; Philips engines; 'modern knowledge'; reassessment; post-revival; the 'regenerator problem'; two decades of optimism; thermodynamic design; completing the picture.

Details

  • Original title: Air engines.
  • Record ID : 2002-2169
  • Languages: English
  • Publication: MEP - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 2001
  • ISBN: 1860583385
  • Source: Source: 287 p. (16 x 24); fig.; phot.; tabl.; ref.; index; GBP 49.50.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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