How Modern Steam Engines Work: Advanced Steam Technology Explained

The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...
SlashGear

Here's How The World's First Steam Engines Worked

Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...
Ars Technica

Pulsed engines provide high efficiency, output power, low fluctuations

One famous limit of thermodynamics is that heat engines, like steam engines and internal combustion engines, must be less efficient than a Carnot heat engine (a heat engine cycle designed by French ...
Power Engineering

A Thermodynamics Overview of Cogeneration and Combined Cycle Power vs. Conventional Steam Generation

Economic and other factors have had a large influence on the movement away from coal to other energy sources. One of these influences was the rapid growth of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) that ...
Nature

The Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines

A DISCUSSION on the standards of comparison in connexion with the thermal efficiency of steam engines was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers on Thursday, December n. The Heat Engine and Boiler ...
New Atlas

Porsche's 6-stroke engine doubles up on power and compression

Intake, compression, power, then exhaust. Every 4-stroke engine ever made – about 80% of all engines currently in existence – function on this principle – even rotary engines. But now, Porsche has ...