More than 80% of industrial energy consumption is related to the use of heat, which could prove beneficial on the way to a sustainable energy economy. The Carnot lab is taking up this challenge. This ...

and rejecting the remaining heat to the cold reservoir. The thermodynamic cycle followed by the engine is known as the Carnot cycle. In an ideal case, this process would be perfectly reversible ...

THE caloric theory of heat as developed by Carnot in his famous “Reflexions on the Motive Power of Heat” (Paris, 1824) leads immediately to the correct solution of the relations between heat ...