Prototyping of a Regeneration Mechanism for Green Energy

• Main Authors: Lin Jun Ye, 林峻業
• Other Authors: Fu-Shin Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20541993937427903401

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 機電工程學系博碩專班 === 101 === The object of this thesis was to prototype a green energy regeneration mechanism, which harvested discharged heat from the nature with a Sterling engine and transformed it into mechanic power to drive a piezoelectric generator module. Then, the piezoelectric materials used in the module converted the energy from its mechanic form into electric form for various applications. This research investigated the Sterling engine characteristics in details, and then designed its mechanic geometry to capture heat energy, working temperature differences to generate mechanic power, and selected an adequate Sterling engine type to perform the green energy regeneration kernel after comparisons of merits and demerits for various types of Sterling engines. This thesis successfully designed the targeted Sterling engine based on theoretic principles and prototyped it to supply the estimated electric power. Also, the research conducted diverse experiments to verify the engine’s performances predicted from computer-aided simulations, and measured the engine’s generated mechanical power to evaluate its real efficiencies.