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This new service offers to repair Stirling engines and, what is more, the Basque R&D centre has a comprehensive offer covering the design, manufacture, control and maintenance.
The Stirling engine is a technology with huge possibilities in the CSP, biomass and biogas sectors.
And aware of the value that companies and centres place on this type of technology, IK4-TEKNIKER is launching onto the market a new service for repairing Stirling engines and, what is more, it has a comprehensive offer that covers Stirling engine design, manufacture, control and maintenance.
The aim is to provide companies with a solution that will guarantee that the engine will work properly, and result in cost cutting made possible by the optimum repair of the equipment.
Fault detection
The new service is capable of detecting whether the Stirling engine is in fact the faulty part in the installation that has broken down (pre-diagnostic service over the phone or via email or in situ on IK4-TEKNIKER's premises) and, if that is the case, to offer a diagnosis and the possibility of repairing it.
The centre is thus making available to its customers a solution that allows them to have the possible faults in the engine diagnosed (gas, refrigerant or lubricant leaks; malfunctioning of the sensors or other electronic components; broken heat exchangers or worn seals, among others) and have them rectified.
IK4-TEKNIKER and Stirling technology
Since 2007 IK4-TEKNIKER has been engaged in research and specialisation activity in connection with Stirling technology, thanks to its capabilities in key aspects like precision mechatronics, tribology and sealing or automatic control.
The development of this activity has also been consolidated through its participation in projects like the ConSOLI+Da project within the CENIT (National Strategic Consortia for Technical Research) programme. IK4-TEKNIKER was responsible for much of the design and manufacture of a solar Stirling engine prototype based on alpha configuration and two V cylinders with a target power output of 10kWe.
It is also actively collaborating with the Physics department of the University of Oviedo, which has extensive experience in Stirling engine theory. IK4-TEKNIKER is also collaborating with CEDER (Centre for the Development of Renewable Energies), with which it has developed a test bench for Stirling engines (BEMS) for the characterisation and testing of various control strategies for engines of this type; this has enabled it to embark on the characterisation of the V160F Stirling engine and, as a result, the starting up of this new repair service.
