I am developing a project to design a stirling engine and I intend to use a compressor head to modify it so that it works through the stirling cycle, starting from the hypothesis that this will reduce costs and manufacturing times.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this adaptation proposal? And what factors are necessary to consider in order to implement this adaptation as well as possible?
Also, as part of the methodology, I intend to use a Schmidt model (after having selected the engine configuration and using as input data some considerations made in other investigations), whose results will serve as criteria for selecting a compressor head of a previously established range. And then, using an adiabatic model, predict the final conditions of operation of the proposal (based on the characteristics of the compressor head and the results obtained with the model of schmidt)
Is it correct to use these two models in this way?