The thermodynamic cycle followed by the engine is known as the Carnot cycle. In an ideal case, this process would be perfectly reversible and the Carnot engine would have maximum efficiency.

CARNOT laid down the great and incontrovertible principle that if, when we have obtained motive power by the application of heat, we inquire whether we have obtained the maximum of motive power ...

Engineers have reported on the development of a microscopic motor operating between two thermal baths, that is, a micro Carnot engine.

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 ...

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 ...