Product Description
The Pratt & Whitney FT4 was an aero-derivative industrial gas turbine (JT4 turbojet core) marketed by Pratt & Whitney Power Systems for pipeline compressor drive service at U.S. interstate natural gas mainline compressor stations from the 1960s onward. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, FT4 pipeline packages were allegedly wrapped with asbestos-containing cloth lagging over the gas generator casing, power turbine, and exhaust ducts, allegedly used asbestos combustor and flange gaskets, and allegedly used asbestos rope packing at hot exhaust joints.
Workers Exposed
Pipeline gas turbine mechanics, pipeline compressor station operators, compressor station millwrights, and pipeline instrumentation techs allegedly disturbed asbestos-containing casing lagging, combustor gaskets, and rope packing during gas-generator swaps, hot-section inspections, and exhaust-duct service on P&W FT4 pipeline packages, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records.