Handbook of Centrifugal Gas Compressor

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Solar Turbines Incorporated, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., a Fortune 500 company and the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Solar Turbines is the world’s leading manufacturer of industrial gas turbines in the 1 MW to 22 MW (1,590 hp to 30,000 hp) range. Solar has more than 13,400 units in operation, which have logged more than 1.35 billion operating hours onshore and offshore around the globe.

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TABLES OF CONTENTS:

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1. FEATURES OF SOLAR COMPRESSORS
2. APPLICATIONS
3. GAS TURBINE AND ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVES 
4. CENTRIFUGAL GAS COMPRESSOR THEORY
5. PERFORMANCE, PREDICTION, AND TESTING 
6. COMPRESSOR ASSEMBLY-DISASSEMBLY
7. COMPRESSOR SUB-ASSEMBLIES, COMPONENTS, AND MATERIALS 
8. CONTROL OF CENTRIFUGAL GAS COMPRESSORS
9. SURGE AVOIDANCE

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