Carnot cycle
Carnot's ideal cycle

There are four limbs in such a Carnot cycle.

Every heat engine is subject to the theoretical efficiency limits of the Carnot cycle.

So more heat is given off to the cold reservoir than in the Carnot cycle.

Modern chemical refrigeration techniques developed after the proposal of the Carnot cycle in 1824.

The Carnot cycle when acting as a heat engine consists of the following steps:

Equilibrium thermodynamics, in origins, derives from analysis of the Carnot cycle.

I begin with the cornerstone of thermodynamics, the Carnot cycle.

The refrigeration process with the maximum possible efficiency is the Carnot cycle.

This amounts to about 10% of the theoretical limit for the Carnot cycle.

Evaluation of the above integral is particularly simple for the Carnot cycle.