Solar Titan 130 Turbine running with 100% load.

Our Titan 130 is online and making power. Most of the power is for the plant, and the rest is sold to the grid. The cogen heat exchanger will be online in the next week or so. The heat is used for different process in the plant site.

[@NathansHVAC]

Power output is 15MW. Efficiency without co-generation is 35%.

[@GabrielMarques001]

Those who didn't knew the Cat brand 'solar' and were wondering what a solar turbine is can upvote here 😅

[@BritishEngineer]

Well solar turbine generation exists, thousands of mirrors are arranged in a way to reflect the sun into a central point, this central point is that boiler which boils water into steam to run the turbines.

[@Manny32V]

@@BritishEngineer that's a steam turbine.

[@BigDickMark]

Wow it all looks so clean.

[@trevork4066]

It's new, when I took the video it had 30 hours on it.

[@2smoker64]

Would like to hear startup and shutdown but bad ass none the less

[@Nighthawke70]

What's the core turbine? I think its a GE or Rolls Royce Olympus Jr, gas turbine.

[@JamieSteam]

Is this plant mostly for generating heat for the facility, and only secondarily for electricity generation?

[@trevork4066]

The congen is mostly for heat, we send the extra power to the grid.

[@DanBowkley]

The generator is on the suck side? I don't think I've ever seen that. Is it a single shaft then? That'd definitely make more sense for the exhaust end, no worrying about hot gas vs shaft seals.

[@a156244]

its ok for a turboshaft heli engine

[@trevork4066]

The generator is on the cold side, there's a heat exchanger on the exhaust for plant heat.

[@BigDickMark]

Correct, single shaft engine with generator is on the compressor inlet side and there reduction gearbox between the compressor inlet and drive side of the generator.

[@davidclark3304]

Single shaft makes sense in a turbine that runs at constant speed and steady load, and this one is a single shaft design. But there are engines with two shafts that drive from the cold end. The shafts are concentric. Aircraft turbo fan engines all run that way, and many helicopter engines.

[@bigboy9693]

I have worked on many solar turbines, and it varies depending on how the customer configures the package, I have seen the driven unit on the inlet and exhaust side.

[@humpreyrivera1073]

is thia titan can power a atleast 400 houses?

[@trevork4066]

It can produce upto 19 megawatts, thats like 19 homes.

[@madmanmapper]

What's the fuel?

[@MatthewWRealtor]

Dinosaurs. LoL

[@a156244]

fermented

[@trevork4066]

Methane

[@Nighthawke70]

LNG, LPG, or Methane.