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Nowadays, electricity generation technology from renewable resources, especially solar energy has been very popular; specifically off-grid systems which have the ability of decentralized electricity generation. Dish/Stirling system is one of the most efficient technologies with capability of decentralized electricity generation from solar energy. The purpose of this study is design, optimization and analysis of a 10 KW Dish/Stirling system for different working location in Iran.
A mathematical model is introduced to analyze all the heat losses in different system components including parabolic dish, cavity receiver and Stirling engine. All the calculations are done with MATLABTM... 

Traveling wave thermoacoustic prime mover is studied in this project. For this purpose, based on one dimensional thermoacoustic equations, thermoacoustic flow is modeled in each segment of thermoacoustic systems. Since regenerator is the most important segment in a traveling wave thermoacoustic prime mover, modeling of the flow in regenerator is considered as the primary motivation for this research. In order to model the thermoacoustic engines, governing 1D relations are simplified and developed. Moreover, to solve equations in regenerator, tortuous geometry of regenerator is approximated with the stack consisting of circular pores. Therefore, in this research stack relations has been used... 

Acoustic science and it’s applications in thermodynamic, cause the new achievements in different field of scientific and industrial. Thermoacoustic is a new technique of acoustic that analyzes the thermodynamic fluctuations related to time and displacement. In other word, thermoacoustic is a field of transformation between acoustic energy and thermal energy. Thermoacoustic devices Include refrigeration equipment, motors, pumps, heat or a combination of these devices that are used to transfer and convert acoustic energy to thermal energy. The thermoacoustic systems that their functions are based on the interaction between acoustic wave and gas particle that does exist it’s around are new... 

Dish-stirling system with an efficiency of nearly 30% is the most efficient technology among solar energy technologies. This system includes four main parts; Parabolic dish, solar tracker, receiver and Stirling engine and generator. In this system, first parabolic dish concentrates sun rays on its focus. A receiver is put on the focus to receive the heat radiated from dish. This receiver transfers the heat to a Stirling engine. In Stirling engine, expansion and contraction of gas helps piston to move and finally rotational mechanical work is done. With coupling a generator and Stirling engine we can generate electricity. Also for keeping the focus of sun rays on receiver we should have sun...