Importance of Carnot Cycle in Engineering

applications

Carnot Cycle
The Carnot cycle is a thermodynamic cycle that occurs in a computer or machine
when it works by absorbing a quantity of heat Q1 from a source of higher
temperature and yielding a heat Q2 to the one of lower temperature producing a
work on the outside.
Carnot states that a hot body is needed that produces heat and a cold body to
which the caloric is transported, which generates a mechanical work in the
process. It also establishes that said work is independent of the substance that is
used to produce heat and the design and construction material of the machine.
In the following figure the Carnot Theorem is shown
In the following figure the Carnot Theorem is shown
What is a Steam Engine?

It is called a full-scale steam engine where it is used as a driving

force that results from the expansion of water vapor. Its
fundamental principle is that of the conversion of heat into work.
This work depends, as in all thermal machines, on the difference
in temperature, that is, on the difference between the
temperature of the steam before it expands and the difference it
has when going outside
The temperature of the water is increased, with the burning of coal or
another type of fuel, until generating steam. This steam is taken by pipes
to a cylinder that contains a piston, which due to the pressure of steam
at high temperatures is pushed up and down producing a mechanical
energy that is transmitted to a rotation mechanism, whose movement
and strength are used to drive other mechanisms and wheels
Carnot Engine
Applications of the Carnot Cycle

Thermal devices or thermal machines are one of the

applications of this cycle. The heat pumps to produce
heating, the refrigerators to produce cooling, the steam
turbines used in the ships, the combustion engines of the
combustion vehicles and the reaction turbines of the aircraft
are some of the examples that we can mention
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