Paul Boucherot

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

Life

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

After Mikhail Ossipowitsch Doliwo - Dobrovolsky invented the induction motor in 1893, he was interested in from the following year for multiphase flows and developed a double- cage rotor.

In the years 1912 and 1919, the meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission was held under his chairmanship in Paris.

With the physicist Georges Claude Paul Boucherot conceived in 1926 to generate electricity, a thermal machine that exploits the temperature difference of warm tropical surface water and the cold water at great depths of the sea ( Claude- Boucherot Process). It was an application of the Carnot theorem and a precursor of the OTEC project. Claude built the facility in Cuba.

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