Carnot heat engine

Theoretical engine

A Carnot heat engine (English: kar-NOH, French: [kaʁno]) is a theoretical heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle. The basic model for this engine was developed by French military engineer Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot in 1824. The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically explored by Rudolf Clausius in 1857, work that led to the fundamental thermodynamic concept of entropy.

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