solar turbines what company

Chinese name: Solar Turbines, a subsidiary of Caterpillar.

Headquartered in San Diego, California, U.S.A., Sola Turbine is a global leader in the industrial gas turbine industry and a top 50 U.S. exporter. In the investment- and technology-intensive gas turbine manufacturing industry, the company's journey of more than 80 years can be called a vivid case of U.S. companies to customer service as the core, constantly innovating products and business methods, reflecting a unique U.S. technology-intensive heavy industrial enterprise development path.

Solar Turbine currently has branches in more than 40 countries and regions, with products distributed in 96 countries and regions, more than 13,400 installed units, and an overall operating time of more than 1.4 billion hours. Solar Turbine's products are widely used in the global oil and gas production, processing and pipeline transportation fields; the company's global market share reaches 60% in the market of combustion turbines with outputs ranging from 1.1 megawatts (MW) to 22 MW, and in the market of centrifugal compressors used in natural gas transmission pipelines.

Solar Turbine's turbine engines are smaller, lighter, more reliable and easier to maintain than the large, low-speed engines traditionally used in industry, and with 4,800 systems in operation in more than 80 countries and territories, they are the most widely used industrial gas turbines in the world. From 1973, the company's main business began to leave the aviation field, focusing on industrial gas turbine, turbine production and service, and in 1977 launched the largest power of 7,900 kilowatts of the "Mars" gas turbine engine. 1981, the market prospects of the Solar Turbine was acquired by Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar and Solar Turbine were in the same business area, both in the field of industrial machinery, and their products were complementary. After the merger, Caterpillar not only did not change the direction of Sola Turbine's production and operation, but also the parent company's sufficient financial support is a strong guarantee for Sola Turbine's new product development.

Through technological innovation, in 1985, Solar Turbine introduced a new member of the Centaur series - the Centaur 50 with a rated power of 4570 kW, which is currently installed in about 3280 machines worldwide. Five years later, the Taurus 60 with a rated power of 5740 kW was launched, and in 1993 the Taurus 70 with a rated power of 7520 kW was introduced. In 1993, the company launched the Taurus 70 gas turbine with a rated power of 7,520 kW, which was the first environmentally friendly engine in the industry to utilize premixed lean combustion technology. Since then, the company has further refined its low-NOx-emission engine technology for use in the Centaur, Mercury, Taurus, Mars, and later Mars. "Centaur, Mercury, Taurus, Mars and later Hercules gas turbines.

Solar Turbine developed the new single-cycle Hercules 130 industrial gas turbine in 1997 with a mechanical drive in a two-axis, variable-speed configuration, which was designed to achieve a single-cycle thermal efficiency of more than 34.5 percent. That same year, the company began field testing an industrial gas turbine with ceramic components in place of standard metal components, the industry's first use of cooling technology to maintain temperatures in a predetermined range and part of a U.S. Department of Energy development program. The successful application of ceramic components increased power by allowing higher gas inlet temperatures, while improving thermal efficiency and reducing pollution by reducing the use of compressed air to cool components. 1997 also saw the announcement of a 4.2 MW optimized reheat cycle Mercury 50 gas turbine developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy for the Advanced Turbine Systems Program. "The Mercury 50 gas turbine technology, developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy for the Advanced Turbine Systems Program, offers a 10 percent savings in electricity production costs while significantly reducing emissions.

Entering the new century, Solar Turbines has become the world's leading manufacturer of 25,000 horsepower industrial turbine engines, with more than 11,800 gas turbines installed. The products are widely used in the fields of airborne power, combined heat and power, standby power, production, processing and transportation of natural gas and oil, as well as naval propulsion, etc., providing stable and reliable power for the operations of these industries.

Solar's agent in China for industrial gas turbines: Shanghai Lisun Group