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Title: Application Of The Sterling Cycle To LNG Production Plants
Author: B. J. Ferro, J. A. Halloran
Source: American Gas Association 1970
Year Published: 1970
Abstract: The Stirling Cycle was conceived and patented in 1816 by Reverend Robert Stirling, a minister of the Church of Scotland. This fact obviously makes it a holy of a cycle. Reverend Stirlings original embodiment was a device to convert heat into power by using hot air instead of steam. This relatively simple engine worked by virute of the fact that a gas, such as air, expands when it it heated. If it expands against a piston, it does work and also cools itself in the process. The Stirling hot air engine consisted of a hot and a cold space connected through a regenerative heat exchanger (regenerator). Pressure within these two spaces was varied mainly by the reciprocating motion of the working piston. Transfer of the working gas from the hot to the cold spaces through the regenerator, and vice-versa, was accomplished by means of the transfer piston (displacer). Proper phasing of the motion of piston and displacer was prearranged by the phase angles of the crankshafts driving each of these two moving elements.

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