Hot air engine

Historic hot air engine from 1878

As hot air engines , various designs are of heat engines designated external combustion engine to use as a working medium is air (or other gas).

Types of hot air motors are:

• Ericsson engine
• Stirling engine
• Vuilleumier heat pump
• Vacuum motor , also called a flame eater
• Manson engine

The industrialist Louis Heinrici built a series of hot air motors as a mass product from 1876.

In connection with the use of renewable energy sources in decentralized small-scale applications, many of these practically extinct forms of construction were again lively discussed.

See also

• Gas expansion engine
• Compressed air car

literature

• Ivo Kolin: The development of the hot air engine . E. Schmidt, Oberursel 1991
• FW Bork: The power machines for small businesses and their testing for efficiency and operating costs at the exhibition of power and work machines in Erfurt , Berlin 1880, pp. 35–68. (Lehmann machine, Stenberg hot air machine, Rennes hot air machine, Hock open hot air machine)

Web links

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