the Carnot engine and the 3-level maser. Quantum refrigerators share the structure of quantum heat engines with the purpose of pumping heat from a cold...

heat engines include the thermal power station, internal combustion engine, firearms, refrigerators and heat pumps. Power stations are examples of heat engines...

described by the laws of quantum mechanics. Quantum refrigerators are devices that consume power with the purpose to pump heat from a cold to a hot reservoir...

cooling and then is absorbed into the second coolant; heat is needed to reset the two coolants to their initial states. Absorption refrigerators are commonly...

zero". New Scientist. Levy, A.; Alicki, R.; Kosloff, R. (2012). "Quantum refrigerators and the third law of thermodynamics". Phys. Rev. E. 85 (6): 061126...

An ideal refrigerator or heat pump can be thought of as an ideal heat engine that is operating in a reverse Carnot cycle. Heat pump cycles and refrigeration...

such as an internal combustion engine, steam turbine, steam engine, boiler, furnace, refrigerator, ACs etc. For a heat engine, thermal efficiency is the ratio...

cryogenic refrigerators. Their input powers can be as high as 1 MW. In most cases cryocoolers use a cryogenic fluid as the working substance and employ moving...

class of problems in quantum thermodynamics is periodically driven systems. Periodic quantum heat engines and power-driven refrigerators fall into this class...

This timeline of heat engine technology describes how heat engines have been known since antiquity but have been made into increasingly useful devices...

If we choose engines such that work done by the one cycle engine and the two cycle engine are same, then the efficiency of each heat engine is written as...

1 newton. Engine An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy. Heat engines convert heat into work via...

alloy stretching and relaxing. Many Stirling cycle heat engines can be run backwards to act as a refrigerator, and therefore these engines have a niche use...

operates, unlike all existing heat engines, as a fully coherent, closed system. Kurizki and coworkers developed an approach to quantum sensing that eludes the...

applied to heat. The initial application of thermodynamics to mechanical heat engines was quickly extended to the study of chemical compounds and chemical...

In thermodynamics, heat is energy in transfer between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings by such mechanisms as thermal conduction, electromagnetic...

or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate...

and calling these heat engines is an acceptable use of the term." Mechanical efficiency of heat engines, p. 1 (2007) by James R. Senf: "Heat engines are...

by a reversible heat engine was found to be the product of the Carnot efficiency (i.e., the efficiency of all reversible heat engines with the same pair...

thermoacoustics. In contrast with other cryocoolers (e.g. Stirling cryocooler and GM-refrigerators), this cryocooler can be made without moving parts in the low temperature...

L. A.; Palao, J. P.; Alonso, D.; Adesso, G. (2014). "Quantum-enhanced absorption refrigerators". Scientific Reports. 4 (3949): 3949. arXiv:1308.4174...

steady-state heat engines" (PDF). Physical Review E. 102 (4). However, fluctuations [in reservoir temperature] make impractical such engines. Sources Carnot...

Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature...

to solar power. These refrigerators are increasingly being used to store vaccines in remote areas. Solar-powered refrigerators and other solar appliances...

efficiency of heat engines only, whereas what was called the third law dealt with entropy increases. Gradually, this resolved itself and a zeroth law was...

of heat engine they seek to model. The most common cycles used to model internal combustion engines are the Otto cycle, which models gasoline engines, and...

decreases in A and increases in B, contrary to the second law of thermodynamics. A heat engine operating between the thermal reservoirs A and B could extract...

leading, inter alia, to fundamental limits on the efficiency of heat engines and refrigerators. The thermodynamic characterisation of systems in equilibrium...

Leonard J.; Vazirani, Umesh V. (1999-01-01). "Molecular scale heat engines and scalable quantum computation". Proceedings of the thirty-first annual ACM symposium...

Sensible heat is heat exchanged by a body or thermodynamic system in which the exchange of heat changes the temperature of the body or system, and some macroscopic...