Product Description

The Solar Turbines Centaur was an industrial gas turbine widely installed as prime mover for centrifugal compressors at U.S. interstate natural gas pipeline mainline compressor stations from the 1960s onward. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, Centaur pipeline packages were allegedly insulated with asbestos-containing cloth lagging around the turbine hot section 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 hot-section lagging, combustor gaskets, and rope packing during hot-section inspections, combustor swaps, and exhaust-duct service on Solar Centaur pipeline packages, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records.