Capstone Turbine

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A Capstone microturbine. This machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and patented foil bearings.

Capstone Turbine Corporation, incorporated in 1988, is a California based gas turbine manufacturer that specializes in microturbine power and heat cogeneration systems. Capstone has sold and shipped more than 3,000 of these one-moving-part systems worldwide. It is the only microturbine manufacturer of oil-free gas microturbines, made possible with the use of foil bearings.

The company sells products for electrical power generation, cogeneration, biogas-fueled renewable energy, and hybrid vehicle power.

[edit] See also

• Distributed power
• Brayton cycle
• FlexEnergy
• Low Btu Gas

[edit] External links

• Company website
• FlexEnergy
• Nasa's oil-free turbine research program

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