In an ideal case, this process would be perfectly reversible and the Carnot engine would have maximum efficiency. In reality, ...

Otto exploited the findings of French physicist Sadi Carnot, who in 1824 showed that the efficiency of an engine depends critically on the temperature differential between a hot “source” of ...

IN a paper on Carnot's Cycle and the Efficiency of Heat Engines, reported in NATURE, August 29, Dr. J. S. Haldane comes to the astonishing conclusion that “the Carnot cycle is radically in ...

Engineers have reported on the development of a microscopic motor operating between two thermal baths, that is, a micro Carnot engine. In a recent study published in Nature Physics, ICFO ...

Although the Carnot cycle itself is impossible to realize, the `` Stirling engine '' devised by Robert Stirling, a pastor in Scotland in 1816, is known to be quite close to this Carnot cycle.

In 1824, French engineer Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot – known as the father of thermodynamics – proposed what is known as the Carnot engine, the most efficient engine which is theoretically ...

Practical heat engines are limited to a theoretical efficiency called the Carnot limit, which sets a cap on how much heat can be converted to useful work June 12, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...