1. Thermal energy conversion machines

1.1 Founding scientific concepts

French scientist Sadi CARNOT , a famous French physicist and engineer, and a pioneer of thermodynamics, demonstrated his famous theorem in 1824 in his seminal treatise "Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance": "The efficiency of a reversible ditherme cycle with external combustion is a maximum-efficiency cycle", a theorem that remains fully relevant in 2021. The visionary work of Sadi Carnot, an alumnus of the École Polytechnique and the Conservatoire...