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[DPRG] Has anyone heard of phase change muscles?
Subject: [DPRG] Has anyone heard of phase change muscles?
From: Randy M. Dumse
rmd at newmicros.com
Date: Sun Sep 23 13:14:47 CDT 2001
I had several replies along the same line. It had been years since I'd
thought about the Stirling engine. And I followed the proffered web links to
find some sites on the engine. You know, I think this is just a
heated-cooled gas engine using applications of the Carnot cycle. (See:
http://www.blueneptune.com/~xmwang/myGUI/CarnotG.html for example)
What I was thinking of instead was something closer to a steam engine in a
locomotive, where water is boiled to make steam (phase change). Of course in
the conventional locomotive, the steam pressure is bleed away through valves
to expanding chambers pushing alternative sides of a piston, then released
(or recycled with a condenser). (See http://www.howstuffworks.com/steam.htm
for example)
Randy
Randy M. Dumse
www.newmicros.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Jordan [mailto:rljordan at airmail.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:11 PM
> To: 'Randy M. Dumse'; dprglist at dprg.org
> Subject: RE: [DPRG] Has anyone heard of phase change muscles?
>
>
> Sounds like the basics of a Sterling engine.
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