I met with Pat Kelly and two of the Engineering department plumbers today to discuss what work would be needed to get the engine commissioned. They are going to make up the required plumbing and they also agreed that it is a relatively simple job to get it commissioned. Pat is also working on getting a desk for me and dealing with the exhaust ducting. I hope that this will be done soon as it will allow me to begin working on some of the other aspects of the system for example the data acquisition.
The rest of the day was spent reading the remainder of the EPRI literature and communicating with Umer Khan in relation to the MicroMon installation bugs. It will not be possible to troubleshoot this problem until I have the engine IT hardware set up in the test cell - dependent on getting a desk. Umer also kindly offered to use remote access software to view the problem himself, again this is dependent on getting the apparatus set up. I intend on keeping in regular contact with the technical staff in Engineering to ensure good progress is being made.
I also came across a very recent document (June 2012) reviewing the current state of the art in Stirling engines for CHP which lists the current players that have or are soon to release commercial engines. The document can be found here below and some of the key tables have been included below for brevity.
A Review of Stirling Engine Technologies applied to micro-Cogeneration Systems
I also came across some other interesting papers and documents on the state of Stirling engine technology:
Technological development in the Stirling cycle engines (2008)
A review of solar-powered Stirling engines and low temperature differential Stirling engines (2003)
DFE2008 Residential Micro-cogeneration (Wiki)
Residential Cogeneration Systems: A Review of The Current Technologies (2005)
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