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| Based in San Diego/California, Solar Turbines
Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc,
is a world leader in fabricating industrial gas turbines. Founded
in 1927, Solar Turbines entered the turbo machinery business
in 1960. Since then, the fleet of Solar gas turbines has grown
to more than 12,000 units. Those turbines have logged over 1,200,000,000
hours in operation in 93 countries. |
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| Solar Turbines designs and manufactures its
gas turbines, generator and compressor sets to ensure high performance,
reliability, availability, efficiency, low emission levels,
and long life. Solar turbines can also burn diesel-2 or landfill
gas. |
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| Turbine Name |
Mechanical Drives |
Generator Drives |
| Centaur 40 |
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3500 |
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4700 |
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3515 |
| Centaur 50 |
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4570 |
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6130 |
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4600 |
| Mercury 50 |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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4600 |
| Taurus 60 |
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5740 |
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7700 |
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5670 |
| Taurus 65 |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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6300 |
| Taurus 70 |
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7690 |
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10310 |
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7520 |
| Mars 90 |
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9690 |
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13220 |
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9450 |
| Mars 100 |
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11930 |
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16000 |
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11430 |
| Titan 130 |
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15290 |
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20500 |
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15000 |
| Titan 250 |
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22370 |
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30000 |
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21750 |
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| Besides supplying the equipment, Solar also
can provide a wide range of services after-sales to support
its customers from the project management to the operation of
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Installation and Startup Assistance
» Commissioning
» Technical Training
» Certified Parts
» Repairs, Overhauls, and Upgrades
» Complete Project Operation and Maintenance
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Thermal Power Plants and Cogeneration:
In addition to the quality of its products, Solar's unrivalled
level of experience and worldwide Customer Service capabilities,
are among the key reasons why customers continue to make Solar
Turbines the first choice to meet their energy requirements
in the range of 1 to 50 MW. |
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Solar generator
sets are used in a variety of applications:
» Small Thermal Power Plants
Simple Cycle
Combined Cycle
» Peak Shaving
» Standby Duty
» Distributed Power
» Cogeneration
Low, Medium and High Pressure Steam Generation
for Industrial Processes
Steam Generation for feeding Mechanical and
Absorption Chillers
Direct Heating
Oil and other Fluids Heating |
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Oil and Gas:
Oil and Gas industries use Solar gas turbines to drive
generators, compressors and pumps, in numerous applications:
» Offshore Platforms and FPSO Power Generation
» Power Generation, or Cogeneration, in Refineries
» Gas Compression for Transmission in Pipelines
» Gas Compression for "Gas Lift"
» Gas Compression for Re-injection
» Crude Pumping
» Liquids Pumping
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In Brazil:
Solar Turbines is present in Brazil, where 169 units have
been sold for different applications, since 1974.
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In addition to supplying the equipment, Solar has the ability to provide technical support for maintenance, as it has a
group of technicians and engineers - Brazilians, experts and
highly qualified - based in Rio de Janeiro, which is responsible
for Solar's Customer Services in Brazil.
Operating and Maintaining Petrobras’ turbo compressor sets in Campos Basin, Solar also has a unit of its MMS-Machinery Management Services division, in Macaé/RJ. MMS, is exclusively dedicated to executing Operation & Maintenance services on gas compression and power generation plants.
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