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  1. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Father of Thermodynamics - ASME

    Apr 10, 2012 · Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, the son of high-ranking military leader Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, was born in Paris in 1796. His father …

  2. In 1824, Carnot published Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, which detailed his research and presented a well-reasoned theoretical treatment for the perfect (but unattainable) heat …

  3. Carnot's Reflection on the Motive of Fire & Power - ASME

    Nicholas Sadi Carnot's Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power, published in France in 1824, was among the earliest attempts to …

  4. Carnot Compression takes cue from medieval technology to …

    Sep 3, 2020 · California startup Carnot Compression is taking a cue from 16th century technology design a compressor that uses a centrifugal system to produce compressed air quieter, …

  5. Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson Takes on Green Energy …

    Oct 3, 2024 · The device runs on the Ericsson thermodynamic cycle and converts heat to electricity at efficiency levels that approach the Carnot limit—the theoretical maximum …

  6. Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius - ASME

    Apr 11, 2012 · German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius is considered one of the principal founders of the science of thermodynamics, building on the …

  7. For the GTCC, Carnot’s “imaginable best-engine” is the gas turbine. As a heat engine it had a dual development in 1939 as the jet engine and in its land use to generate electricity, some …

  8. Introduction A Heat Pump in an Office Building The use of heat pumps for the heating and cooling of the Equitable Building, initiated in 1948, was a pioneering achieve-ment in the Western …

  9. Carnot’s work, published in 1824, entitled Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power set the stage for the steady improvement of the …

  10. New Refrigeration Method Relies on Ionocaloric Cooling - ASME

    Jul 18, 2023 · When they calculated the maximum achievable efficiency of the ionocaloric cycle, the researchers saw numbers that hovered around 90 percent to 95 percent relative to Carnot …