Float Glass Process Technology-Revisited: Part II

摘要

As an important class of material,”float”glass stands apart. It has also high commercial value,making this segment of glass business very attractive. With increasing activity in the real estate sector,its market is expanding to blow up to a greater dimension in the not-so distant future. It has not only a range of important applications but also the process is quite interesting by itself.The evolution of window glass or sheet glass into the present form of highly transparent and clear float glass is explained as historical perspective in Part-I of the article. Although a brief description on process technology for making’float’glass was given earlier,the details are explained in the Part-ll of the article with a comparison of a larger glass tank furnace with that of a smaller one.This gives rise to a better insight into this interesting process technology.