Which outcome results when a Stirling engine heat exchanger is fouled?

💡 Explanation

A fouled heat exchanger reduces heat transfer, so thermal energy bypass occurs causing lower pressure changes and less work being done to the piston travel, eventually producing less mechanical rotating power output, rather than maintaining ideal efficiency, or altered ideal thermodynamic parameters.

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