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The problem with combined cycle is that the Rankine cycle is often used as a bottoming cycle to recover otherwise rejected heat.
It works great. But its going to be big. Classical boiler design dictates that for each horsepower you want to extract you need 10 to 12 square feet of heat exchanger.
There has only been one successful on road combined cycle engine setup and it is called the turbodiesel. The bottom cycle here is a brayton cycle.
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