Every new internal combustion car and truck sold in America today is equipped with a four-stroke engine, as are the vast ...

The thermodynamic cycle followed by the engine is known as the Carnot cycle. In an ideal case, this process would be ...

And the conversion efficiency is ``how much heat added to the Carnot cycle is converted to rotational energy'', so it can be obtained by E / (Q H). As long as Q C exists, E will never be 1, i.e. 100%.

THE cycle proposed by Dr. J. S. Haldane (NATURE, August 29, p. 326) as a standard of comparison for steam engine performance can be shown quite readily on a temperature-entropy chart, and thus be ...

Based on the the heat pump-organic rankine cycle, scientists in Portugal have created six different models of Carnot batteries for stationary storage. They investigated 16 different combinations ...

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 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ What is the Carnot Cycle? ” in SA Supplements Vol. 66 No. 1710supp (October 1908), p. 239 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...