How to Use heat engine in a Sentence

heat engine

noun

• The result was a heat engine that works on two things simultaneously.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
• From cars to airplanes, ships to power generation plants, heat engines are everywhere.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• However, to build an autonomous device at this scale, scientists had to build a quantum heat engine first.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• Unlike other heat engines, the quantum heat engine uses the quantum refrigerator for both heat and cold.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• The team then leveraged this behavior to build a quantum heat engine that can produce mechanical work and refrigeration at the same time.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
• Standard nuclear generators, like those powering the Mars rovers, are often bulky heat engines.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
• The quantum heat engine built by the researchers is only a proof of principle, opening up applications for a wide range of devices ranging from quantum processors to sensors and much more.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
• According to the researchers, Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
• While saving thousands of euros in microwave cable costs, an autonomous heat engine will also help reduce the complexity of building quantum computers in the future.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• This non-thermal heat then traveled several micrometers to a quantum-dot heat engine, a microscopic system that converts heat into electricity through quantum effects.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
• Quantum heat engine Heat engines were critical in bringing about the Industrial Revolution.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• Fuel cells are typically more efficient and environmentally friendly than heat engines, such as the internal combustion engines that usually power cars.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2016
• The achievement of building a quantum heat engine sets the stage to build an entire autonomous heat engine that can perform jobs like reading qubits without using microwave pulses from temperatures near absolute zero to room temperature.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• Their analysis showed that this technique could surpass both the Carnot and Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency limits, which traditionally define the maximum performance of heat engines.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
• Scientists at Aalto University in Finland have built the world’s first cyclic heat engine, operating inside a superconducting circuit and using a minuscule amount of heat from a quantum refrigerator to convert it into useful work.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• That indirect pathway is fundamentally constrained by thermodynamic limits, particularly the Carnot efficiency ceiling associated with heat engines, which restricts how much of the fuel’s energy can be converted into usable electricity.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026