The Carnot Prize is given"for distinguished contributions to energy policy".
Goyal came to Philadelphia last October to receive the 2018 Carnot Prize.
Carnot's theorem(1824) is a principle that limits the maximum
efficiency for any possible engine.
In 1888, the president of the French Third Republic Sadi Carnot promulgated a decree to establish Hai Phong city.
Carnot's theorem states:
All heat engines between two heat reservoirs are less efficient than a Carnot heat engine operating between the same reservoirs.
The school is a member of the Institut Mines-Telecom, the Carnot M.I.N.E. S Institute,
the Conference des Grandes Ecoles and an associate member of the COMUE Languedoc-Roussillon.
With India becoming home to the world's largest solar park,
solar plant and single rooftop plant, the Carnot Prize recognises India's“solid footing to reach a
40% renewable mix by 2030”(Kleinman Center for Energy Policy).
The most prestigious award in the energy sector,
Carnot Prize is named after French physicist Nicolas Sadi Carnot who had recognised that the power of the steam engine
would“produce a great revolution” in human development.
Carnot's successful theory of heat engines had also been based on the caloric assumption,
and only later was it proved by Lord Kelvin that Carnot's mathematics were equally valid without assuming a caloric fluid.
On 19th October 2018, Minister of Railways & Coal and former Minister of Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and
Mines Piyush Goyal was awarded the 4th annual Carnot Prize 2018 by Kleinman Center for Energy
Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design,