CarNet, i.e. the CARNOT NETWORK, is the pan-European network on `Thermodynamics and thermoeconomics of energy conversion, transport and accumulation', sponsored by the Commission of European Communities, under the Inco-Copernicus program.
It is coordinated by Alexis De Vos and consists of the following members:
Alexis De Vos, from the Universiteit Gent Bjarne Andresen, from Københavns Universitet Peter Landsberg, from the University of Southampton Luigi Sertorio, from the Università degli Studi di Torino Karl Heinz Hoffmann, from the Technische Universität Chemnitz-Zwickau Bengt Månsson, from the Umwelt Forschungs Zentrum Leipzich-Halle Stanislaw Sieniutycz, from the Politechniki Warszawa Viorel Bãdescu, from the Institutul Politehnic Bucaresti Henrik Farkas, from the Muszaki Egyetem Budapest Ryszard Mrugawa, from the Mikolaja Kopernika Uniwersytet Toruñ Zdenek Herman, from the Akademie ved Ceske republiky Praha Lajos Diósi, from the Magyar Tudomayos Akademia Budapest
The first research project (Carnet 1) started on 1 October 1993 and ended on 31 September 1996. The second research project (Carnet 2) started on 1 January 1997 and ended on 31 December 1999.
The latest plenary meetings of the network took place in Il Ciocco, on 21 April 1999, at the Gordon Conference on Modern Developments in Thermodynamics and in Balatonfured, on 10-14 August 1999.
An important project was the publication of a joint multi-author book (335 pages) `Thermodynamics and thermoeconomics of energy conversion and transport' by Springer Verlag New-York (ISBN 0 - 387 - 98938 - 2). The content of the manuscript is as follows:
Preface by S. Sieniutycz Chapter # 01 : `Statistical mechanics of solar energy conversion' by B. Månsson Chapter # 02 : `Solar energy conversion into mechanical work' by V. Bãdescu Chapter # 03 : `Thermodynamics of photovoltaics' by A. De Vos Chapter # 04 : `Some methods of analysing solar cell efficiencies' by P. Landsberg and V. Bãdescu Chapter # 05 : `Solar buildings' by L. Sertorio and G. Tinetti Chapter # 06 : `Conversion of thermal and chemical energy' by S. Sieniutycz and S. Berry Chapter # 07 : `Optimized internal combustion engines' by K. Hoffmann, P. Blaudeck and J. Burzler Chapter # 08 : `Qualitative theoretical properties of heat conduction' by H. Farkas, I. Farago and P. Simon Chapter # 09 : `Elementary collisions characterized by large energy changes' by Z. Herman Chapter # 10 : `Geometrical methods in thermodynamics' by R. Mrugawa Chapter # 11 : `Statistical distances' by L. Diósi and P. Salamon Chapter # 12 : `Distillation by thermodynamic geometry' by B. Andresen and P. SalamonThe book was published in May 2000 and its price is 77 U.S. $.
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