The selection of stirling engines applied to cogeneration systems

The cogeneration systems of energy production are built and developed to achieve the highest economic and ecologic efficiency. These two aims can be realized by increasing energetic efficiency of transforming different sources of energy into technical systems and optimizing usage of own energy. These can be achieved by the usage of different equipment. The search for new constructions, structure and systems is still developing. This article describes the basic principles for use of Stirling engines in micro immobility cogeneration systems. This attempt is made because the Stirling engines seem to be a convenient equipment of optimizing usage of own energy in micro agropower plants. Especially we try to determine which type of the Stirling engine seems to be the best to fulfil the demands in practice. For this purpose a procedure of selection and adjustment of Stirling engines was formulated. In the described procedure many steps ought to be taken for correct choice of all technical arrangements. In this paper the following topics were considered: energetic demands of small houses, maximum instantaneous electric power, consumption of electric energy throughout a year, maximum instantaneous heating power, consumption of heat energy of the year, selection and choice of construction of Stirling engines, selection and choice of pressure of working gas.