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Swedish Stirling: Revolutionary old technology

Swedish Stirling CEO Gunnar Larsson talked to Mining Magazine’s EMEA editor Craig Guthrie about the potential for the company’s Stirling engine, often called “the perfect engine,” to revolutionise power generation for energy intensive mineral processing in South Africa and beyond.

 Computer model of PWR BLOKs installed at a mining site

Computer model of PWR BLOKs installed at a mining site

The transformational heat exchange technology that became the Stirling engine was born in the early 1800s because the Scottish pastor who invented them, Robert Stirling, was saddened by the increasing...

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