Company Description:
Headquartered in San Diego, California, U.S.A., Solar Turbines Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is a leading manufacturer of industrial gas turbines with more than 12,000 units with over one billion operating hours in some 93 countries. Solar Turbines products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1590 to 30,000 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 23 megawatts).
Why Solar Turbines
Since Solar entered the industrial gas turbine business in 1960 with the Saturn turbine, Solars fleet has grown to more than 13,400 units worldwide. These units have logged more than 1.4 billion hours in 96 countries in some of the toughest, most challenging arctic, desert, tropical and offshore environments. This unparalleled experience gives testimony to the mature design and wide user acceptance of Solars products.
Solars compact, lightweight and durable gas turbines offer the highest thermal efficiencies in their power classes. Other advantages include ease of transport and installation, long life, high performance, availability and reliability. Units in the Centaur, Mercury, Taurus, Mars and Titan gas turbine families are available with Solars pollution prevention SoLoNOx dry low emissions combustion system. As of December 2008, customers installed or ordered more than 2000 gas turbines with SoLoNOx, and those units have logged approximately 61 million operating hours and saved over 1.4 million tons of emissions. Solars experience with dry, lean-premixed combustion technology, designed to meet low emissions regulations, is unmatched by any other company in the gas turbine industry.
Solar offers complete solutions from engineering specifications to machinery management for your 1 to 60 MW power needs. Our products are marketed and serviced from 43 locations around the world. We are dedicated to providing quality products and prompt, comprehensive customer support such as field service, overhaul, refurbishment, certified parts and technical training to remain the industry leader for industrial gas turbine power.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, U.S.A., Solar Turbines Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is a leading manufacturer of industrial gas turbines with more than 12,000 units with over one billion operating hours in some 93 countries. Solar Turbines products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1590 to 30,000 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 23 megawatts).
Why Solar Turbines
Since Solar entered the industrial gas turbine business in 1960 with the Saturn turbine, Solars fleet has grown to more than 13,400 units worldwide. These units have logged more than 1.4 billion hours in 96 countries in some of the toughest, most challenging arctic, desert, tropical and offshore environments. This unparalleled experience gives testimony to the mature design and wide user acceptance of Solars products.
Solars compact, lightweight and durable gas turbines offer the highest thermal efficiencies in their power classes. Other advantages include ease of transport and installation, long life, high performance, availability and reliability. Units in the Centaur, Mercury, Taurus, Mars and Titan gas turbine families are available with Solars pollution prevention SoLoNOx dry low emissions combustion system. As of December 2008, customers installed or ordered more than 2000 gas turbines with SoLoNOx, and those units have logged approximately 61 million operating hours and saved over 1.4 million tons of emissions. Solars experience with dry, lean-premixed combustion technology, designed to meet low emissions regulations, is unmatched by any other company in the gas turbine industry.
Solar offers complete solutions from engineering specifications to machinery management for your 1 to 60 MW power needs. Our products are marketed and serviced from 43 locations around the world. We are dedicated to providing quality products and prompt, comprehensive customer support such as field service, overhaul, refurbishment, certified parts and technical training to remain the industry leader for industrial gas turbine power.