Studies on Piston Seal Mechanism of Stirling Engine

스터링 기관의 피스톤 밀봉 기구에 관한 연구

Dynamic seals have been continue to be one of the major technical problems facing stirling engine designers. Most of the modern engines use some version of the dry ring seal for piston and displacer seals. Friction power losses associated with seals are typically several percent of gross output power, with piston ring seals usually being the main contributor. Much effort has been expended to develop the seal mechanism of piston, but the performance of these seal devices is very poor. This study was conducted to examine the efficiency of the various types of the trial-made piston seal mechanism with reference to leakage of working fluid and friction losses. This paper described the successful hardware implementation of a stainless steel bellows element in stirling engine application with test data in power performance. The indicated power by use of the bellows was more than two times as that by use of the piston ring types. As the result of this study, bellows was provide as a reliable and efficient seal mechanism for any stirling engine application.

Stirling 기관(機關)의 피스톤 Seal부분에서의 마찰저항(摩擦抵抗)을 감소(減少)시킴과 동시 에 작동가스의 누설량(漏泄量)을 감소(減少)시켜서 기관출력(機關出力)을 증대(增大)시킬 목적(目的)으로 재질(材質) 및 밀봉(密封) 형식(形式)이 서로 다른 Piston ring식 밀봉기구(密封機構)와 금속(金屬) Bellows를 이용한 밀봉기구(密封機構)를 시작(試作)해서 마찰저항(摩擦抵抗)과 작동가스의 누설량(漏泄量)을 조사(調査)하고, 이들 밀봉기구(密封機構)를 실험(實驗) 기관(機關)에 장착(裝着)해서 운전시험(運轉試驗)을 통해 각 밀봉기구(密封機構)의 성능(性能)을 검토(檢討)하였다. 그 결과(結果) Bellows를 Power piston의 Actuator로 시작(試作)한 밀봉기구(密封機構)가 다른 Piston-ring식(式) 밀봉기구(密封機構)에 비(比)해, 피스톤링과 실린더벽 사이의 마찰저항(摩擦抵抗) 및 작동(作動)가스의 누설량(漏泄量)이 현저하게 감소(減少)하였으며, D-type은 B-type에 비해 도시출력(圖示出力)은 약 1.6배, 축출력(軸出力)은 약 1.2배로 증가(增加)하였다.