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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.
 
Turbine Name Mechanical Drives Generator Drives
Model/Number   kW   hp   kWe
Saturn 20   1185   1590   1210
Centaur 40   3500   4700   3515
Centaur 50   4570   6130   4600
Mercury 50   N/A   N/A   4600
Taurus 60   5740   7700   5670
Taurus 65   N/A   N/A   6300
Taurus 70   7690   10310   7520
Mars 90   9690   13220   9450
Mars 100   11930   16000   11430
Titan 130   15290   20500   15000
Titan 250   22370   30000   21750
 
 
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 the units:
» 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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» 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

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

 

In Brazil:
Solar Turbines is present in Brazil, where 169 units have been sold for different applications, since 1974.

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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