80th Conference on Glass Problems (eBook)

Foreword vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Plenary Session

Future Of Oxy-Fuel Glass Melting: Oxygen Production, Energy Efficiency, Emissions and CO2 Neutral Glass Melting 3
Hisashi Kobayashi

Peculiar Wear Behavior of Soda Lime Silicate Glass in Humid Air And Its Implications 13
Nisha Sheth and Seong H. Kim

Melting and Combustion

A Glass Problem Solved 25
James Uhlik

Electric Power Adjustment in Glass Furnace with Varivolt Transformer 35
Marc Bernard

Synchronized Oxy-Fuel Boost Burners for Zero-Port Performance Optimization in Float Glass Melting Furnaces 37
Michael J. Gallagher, Mark D. D'Agostini, and William J. Horan

Electric Boosting and Hybrid Furnaces (Practical Application of Higher Levels of Electric Heat Input) 53
W. Kuhn, A. Reynolds, P. Molcan, and B. Malphettes

Carbon Reduction with Super Boosting and Advanced Energy Management using Renewable Resources 71
H. P. H. Muijsenberg, Hans Mahrenholtz, Petr Jandacek, Stuart Hakes, and Christoph Jatzwauk

Batch, Environmental, and Modeling

Designing Furnace Feed Systems That Work 97
Roger A. Barnum and Scott A. Clement

Bag Filter And Catalyst (SCR) - Does This Fit Together? 109
Ruediger Margraf

Cullet - Another Step Towards Glass Sustainability 123
Christopher J. Hoyle, Kevin L. Fulkerson, and Brian J. Naveken

Refractories

New Tuckstone Refractory Solution for Long Life Glass Furnace Superstructure 133
Isabelle Cabodi, Pierrick Vespa, Thibaut Chuffart, and Michel Gaubil

Optimization and Energy Savings Especially in Container Glass Production by Using a Refractory Coating 141
Rolf Weigand and Heiko Hessenkemper

Sensors and Control

Application of Advanced Sensors in the Glass Industry 149
Lieke de Cock

Lighter and Stronger
Paulus Schreuders

HTX - High Performance, High Temperature Thermocouple Wire 159
Declan Tucker, Jonathan Pearce, Ritesh Rawal, and Les Hutton

Not Just A Pretty Picture - In-Furnace Thermal Imaging 167
Mark Bennett, Neil Simpson, S. Fiona Turner, and John Naughton