Experimental Research of Impulse Turbine

The appearance and development of pulsation turbines is due to the advent of thermoacoustic engines - converters of heat into acoustic wave energy with the subsequent receipt of mechanical and electrical energy. A thermoacoustic engine involves obtaining mechanical work on a piston under conditions of a resonant frequency of movement of the piston and frequency of oscillations of the gas column in the resonator. The reason for the appearance of acoustic waves in the resonator is the complex process of converting heat into energy of an oscillating gas flow due to thermodynamic cycles in microvolumes of gas analogous to the Stirling cycle [1].