I want to make a Sterling Engine that runs on Hydrogen gas. I just don’t want it to melt through anything.
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I want to make a Sterling Engine that runs on Hydrogen gas. I just don’t want it to melt through anything.
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H–H–O is not a real chemical. You meant to say “water” which has the molecular configuration:
H–O–H
or H2O for short. Call it a hydrogen-oxygen reaction. HHO is an idiotic trademark name designed to make hydrogen sound like a new invention.
Keep in mind that a Stirling engine (or any heat engine) operates most efficiently when the hot sink is very hot, and the cold sink is very cold. In practical terms, that means the hotter the engine, the more efficient it is.
But we must also avoid melting things, so the either the flame temperature must be kept down (adding some inert gas like nitrogen into the mix), or a cooling system must be devised, or both.
There’s no reason why a hydrogen flame should melt your apparatus. Just use a material with good thermal conductivity and not too low a melting point (copper is recommended), use a temperature probe to keep an eye on things, and increase the flame intensity gradually.