Chen, Chieh-Li; Ho, Chia-En; Yau, Her-Terng - In: Energies 5 (2012) 9, pp. 3573-3585
This paper investigates the optimization of the performance of a solar powered Stirling engine based on finite-time thermodynamics. Heat transference in the heat exchangers between a concentrating solar collector and the Stirling engine is studied. The irreversibility of a Stirling engine is...