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About me<\/STRONG><\/P> Hello everyone. I\u2019m very glad for the attention paid to my Stirling engine project. I\u2019m Alexis, a nineteen-year-old French student currently learning engineering at a school called ISAT<\/A><\/STRONG>. My main point of interest is automotive design, yet I\u2019m also curious about new technologies in general.<\/P> In the next few years, I hope to earn my master\u2019s degree so I can start working to develop new cars. Among all the aspects of automotive engineering, I\u2019d most like to focus on the powertrain \u2014 either gasoline or electric engines, along with transmissions.<\/P> <\/P> About the Stirling Engine<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P> Right off the bat, as an automotive addict, I knew I wanted to design a piece of automotive technology. Yet I already knew that an engine or a gearbox would take too much time to design \u2014 and be a little too ordinary. That\u2019s why I chose a more unsung system that is more fun to design and share: a Stirling engine. I did not pattern my project on one model in particular, but rather used a mix of assorted technologies to create my own design, with the aim of modeling various technological solutions.<\/P> A Stirling engine operates by retrieving energy by moving heat from one source to another colder one. It transforms a part of the energy coming from the hotter source into mechanical motion. In my model, the heat comes from the four oil candles. I\u2019ve also added an oil cooling system with an external gear pump and a pulley in order to connect the moving parts. In the end, I placed physical materials to make the model more realistic.<\/P> <\/P> <\/P><\/EM><\/P>