Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Father of Thermodynamics - ASME 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 resigned from the army in 1807 to educate Nicolas and his brother Hippolyte—both received a broad, home-based education that included science, art, language, and music
REFLECTIONS ON THE MOTIVE POWER OF FIRE AND ON MACHINES FITTED TO . . . 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 engine, now known as the Carnot cycle
Carnots 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 understand and explain the theory of heat engines
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius - ASME German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius is considered one of the principal founders of the science of thermodynamics, building on the work of Sadi Carnot and others He better defined the first and second laws of thermodynamics and introduced the concept of entropy
Carnot Compression takes cue from medieval technology to design quiet . . . 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, without oil and only two moving parts The machine works off the principles of a trompe, a medieval device that uses the weight and force of falling water diffused with air bubbles to compress air and force it through a pipe
GLOBAL GAS TURBINE NEWS - ASME 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 115 years after the publication of Carnot’s seminal
STANDARDIZED STEAM PROPERTY TABLES - ASME 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 efficiency of steam power plants beginning in the late 19th Century and continuing to today
Heat Pump System - ASME 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 hemisphere The theoretical conception of the heat pump was described in a neglected book, published in 1824, and written by a young French army officer, Sadi Carnot Its practical application on a large
New Refrigeration Method Relies on Ionocaloric Cooling - ASME 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 (ideal thermodynamic cycle) “In contrast, the vapor compression systems with current state-of-the-art refrigerants have numbers more like 75 percent to 80 percent,” he