Challenging centuries-old assumptions about thermodynamics, a new study in published in Physical Review Letters has shown that it is theoretically possible to design a heat engine that achieves ...

To achieve the goal of the long term safe, economic and reliable operation of a nuclear power plant, a Plant Life Management, or PLiM programme is essential. Its objective is to identify all of the ...

The thermodynamic cycle followed by the ... that has an efficiency close to the Carnot heat engine is it takes infinite time to do the work with minimal power output. The researchers addressed ...