Paul Boucherot

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Boucherot's grave on the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris shows Prometheus being punished for bringing fire to people

Paul Boucherot (* 1869 , † 1943 ) was a French railway engineer and inventor .

Life

Paul Boucherot studied at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris .

After Michail Ossipowitsch Doliwo-Dobrowolski had invented the asynchronous motor in 1893, he became interested in multiphase currents from the following year and developed a double cage rotor. Further work in the field of electrical engineering was circuit stages in resonance transformers , also known as Boucherot circuits. The functionally related snubber element , which is also referred to as a Boucherot element, is used, among other things, to quench sparks in switching contacts .

In 1912 and 1919 the meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission took place under his chairmanship in Paris .

In 1926, together with the physicist Georges Claude , Paul Boucherot devised a thermal machine to generate electricity, which uses the temperature difference between warm tropical surface water and cold water in great depths of the sea ( Claude-Boucherot Process ). It was an application of Carnot's theorem and a precursor to the OTEC project. Claude built the plant in Cuba.

Paul Boucherot was raised to the rank of Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur .

literature

  • Wolfgang Matthes: The calculation of the basic u. Harmonics in Boucherot bridge circuits with direct and alternating current output . 1960
  • L'Energie électrique dans l'industrie . Georges-H. Dupret. Préf. de P. Boucherot. - Paris: Delagrave, 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The standardization of electrical machines ( Memento of October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/ship4485.htm
  3. ↑ Cover your sky, Zeus ... - L'esprit d'escalier

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personal data
SURNAME Boucherot, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
DATE OF DEATH 1943