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Ivo Kolin

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Ivo Kolin (1924, Zagreb - 2007, Zagreb) was a Croatian economist, engineer and inventor.[1]

After years of experimentation he demonstrated in 1983 the first Low Temperature Difference (LTD) Stirling engine which ran at the temperature difference as low as 15 °C, astonishingly low at the time.[2] It was also the first time in history of piston motors heat was turned into a mechanical work at the temperature lower than the boiling water.[3] The engine was later significantly improved by an American engineer James Senft building on his previous work with Ringbom Stirling engines.[4] Senft created an ultra LTD Ringbom Stirling engine which ran at the temperature difference of just 0.5 °C.[5][6] Such engines, which could even run from heat absorbed while resting on the palm of a human hand, offer many applications, such as Solar Powered Stirling Engines.[7]

References

  1. ^ Biography at ivokolin.com
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  6. ^ "A brief Stirling engine history" (PDF). kontax.co.uk. stirlingengine.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
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