A test facility at NASA Lewis has been assembled for evaluating: free-piston Stirling engine/linear alternator control options, and interaction with various electrical loads. This facility is based on a “SPIKE” engine/alternator. The paper describes the engine/alternator, a multi-purpose load system, a digital computer based load and facility control, and a data acquisition system with both steady-periodic and transient capability.Preliminary steady-periodic results are included for several operating modes of a digital AC parasitic load control. Preliminary results on the transient response to switching a resistive AC user load are discussed.


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    Title :

    A Free-Piston Stirling Engine/Linear Alternator Controls and Load Interaction Test Facility


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992) ; 1992



    Publication date :

    1992-08-03




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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