How does a sterling engine work???

Question

What in a stirling engine senses heat???

Answer 1

The Stirling engine, is a heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type whose heat-exchange process allows for near-ideal efficiency in conversion of heat into mechanical movement by following the Carnot cycle as closely as is practically possible with given materials.

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Answer 2

There are four parts to the Stirling cycle.

Heat is added to the gas inside the heated cylinder (left), causing pressure to build. This forces the piston to move down. This is the part of the Stirling cycle that does the work.
The left piston moves up while the right piston moves down. This pushes the hot gas into the cooled cylinder, which quickly cools the gas to the temperature of the cooling source, lowering its pressure. This makes it easier to compress the gas in the next part of the cycle.
The piston in the cooled cylinder (right) starts to compress the gas. Heat generated by this compression is removed by the cooling source.
The right piston moves up while the left piston moves down. This forces the gas into the heated cylinder, where it quickly heats up, building pressure, at which point the cycle repeats.
The Stirling engine only makes power during the first part of the cycle

Answer 3

Check out this site, it tells all about the inventor, and maybe you can get some information about it.

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/courses/371/abhishe/main.html