# Ivo Kolin

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

After years of experimentation he demonstrated in 1983 the first [Low Temperature Difference](/source/Low_Temperature_Difference_Stirling_engine) (LTD) [Stirling engine](/source/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.[citation needed][3] The engine was later significantly improved by an American engineer [James Senft](/source/James_Senft) building on his previous work with [Ringbom Stirling engines](/source/Ringbom_Stirling_engine).[i][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](/source/Solar_Powered_Stirling_Engines).[7]

## Notes

1. The [Ringbom Stirling engine](/source/Ringbom_Stirling_engine) was patented in 1904 by the [Finn](/source/Finns) [Ossian Ringbom](/source/Ossian_Ringbom).[8]

## References

1. [Biography at ivokolin.com](http://www.ivokolin.com/info/biography) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20141111071113/http://www.ivokolin.com/info/biography) 2014-11-11 at the Wayback Machine

1. Hind El Hassani; N. Boutammachte; M. Hannaoui (2014). "Study of some power influencing parameters of solar low temperature Stirling engine". *European Journal of Sustainable Development*. **3** (2): 109–118. [doi:10.14207/ejsd.2014.v3n2p109](https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2014.v3n2p109)

1. G. Aragon-González; M. Cano-Blanco; M. Cano-Blanco; A. León-Galicia (2013). "Developing and testing low cost LTD Stirling engines". *Revista Mexicana de Física S*. **59** (1): 199–203.

1. Hind El Hassani; N. Boutammachte; J. Knorr; M. El. Hannoui (2013). "Study of a low-temperature Stirling engine driven by a rhombic drive mechanism". *International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering*. **4**: 40. [doi:10.1186/2251-6832-4-40](https://doi.org/10.1186/2251-6832-4-40). [S2CID 110131012](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:110131012)

1. Caleb C. Lloyd (2009). ["A low temperature differential Stirling engine for power generation"](http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/2916/1/thesis_fulltext.pdf). A master's thesis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

1. ["Kontax Stirling & Stove Fan Engines - Stirling History"](https://www.stirlingengine.co.uk/History.asp). stirlingengine.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-13.

1. B. Kongtragool & S. Wongwises (2003). "A review of solar-powered Stirling engines and low temperature differential Stirling engines". *Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews*. **7** (2): 131–154. [doi:10.1016/S1364-0321(02)00053-9](https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-0321(02)00053-9)

1. "Hot-air engine". No. 856102.

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