> Does anyone attempt to recover waste heat from a ...  engine used on a ve=
hicle ?

You've already mentioned one prominent instance - Turbosupercharging.

A pet scheme of mine is a refrigeration unit run by waste heat.
Someone's already
done it & I don't know about it, probably.

 Jack
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