Patent ID: 8286431

Claim:
A power plant, comprising: a combustion turbine system having an inlet receiving inlet air and exhausting expanded combustion gas, the combustion turbine system coupled to an electric generator; an inlet chiller for chilling inlet air before the air is received by the inlet of the combustion turbine system to augment a power output of the power plant; a heat recovery steam generator for receiving the expanded combustion gas and extracting heat therefrom to produce usable steam within a water-steam cycle; a steam turbine system coupled to an electric generator, the steam turbine system receiving the usable steam from the heat recovery steam generator and exhausting steam at super-atmospheric pressure; and a refrigeration element configured to receive at least a portion of the exhausted steam from the steam turbine and to extract energy from the exhausted steam to drive a substantially closed refrigeration cycle that chills a fluid, wherein the chilled fluid is circulated through the inlet chiller to chill inlet air, and a collection and delivery system configured to collect water that has condensed on the refrigeration element and deliver the collected water to the water-steam cycle.