Development of Gas-Fired Small-Scale Small-Scale Glass Melting Furnace

摘要

There are about 70 small-scale glass melting furnaces, so-called multipot furnaces, within our operating area, with a potential demand of 3 x 10 sup 6 m sup 3 /year. Recently, in order to increase gas sales in this area, we have developed glass melting furnaces of a new, hitherto nonexistent type, with the aim of reducing environmental pollution, saving energy and rationalizing the manufacturing process. These are glass melting furnaces of two types, a circular-arc arranged pot furnace and a straight-line arranged pot furnace. In field tests, savings in energy of 45% have been recorded for the circular-arc arranged pot furnace, and large-scale improvements in operational efficiency were obtained in the case of the straight-line arranged pot furnace. (ERA citation 12:011574)