
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …