A thermodynamic performance analysis was performed on a novel cooling and power cycle that combines a semiclosed gas turbine called the high-pressure regenerative turbine engine (HPRTE) with an absorption refrigeration unit. Waste heat from the recirculated combustion gas of the HPRTE is used to power the absorption refrigeration cycle, which cools the high-pressure compressor inlet of the HPRTE to below ambient conditions and also produces excess refrigeration depending on ambient conditions. Two cases were considered: a small engine with a nominal power output of $100kW$ and a large engine with a nominal power output of $40MW$. The cycle was modeled using traditional one-dimensional steady-state thermodynamics, with state-of-the-art polytropic efficiencies and pressure drops for the turbomachinery and heat exchangers, and curve fits for properties of the LiBr-water mixture and the combustion products. The small engine was shown to operate with a thermal efficiency approaching 43% while producing 50% as much $5°C$ refrigeration as its nominal power output (roughly $50tons$) at $30°C$ ambient conditions. The large engine was shown to operate with a thermal efficiency approaching 62% while producing 25% as much $5°C$ refrigeration as its nominal power output (roughly $20,000tons$) at $30°C$ ambient conditions. Thermal efficiency stayed relatively constant with respect to ambient temperature for both the large and small engines. It decreased by only 3–4% as the ambient temperature was increased from $10°Cto35°C$ in each case. The amount of external refrigeration produced by the engine sharply decreased in both engines at around $35°C$, eventually reaching zero at roughly $45°C$ in each case for $5°C$ refrigeration. However, the evaporator temperature could be raised to $10°C$ (or higher) to produce external refrigeration in ambient temperatures as high as $50°C$.

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