L'air Liquide,societe Anonyme Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude

Agc Glass Europe

Luc Jarry

Marc Wagner

Youssef Joumani

Bertrand Leroux

Gregoire Beasse

Remi Tsiava

Peter Van Kampen

Remi Pierre Tsiava

Benoit Grand

Rémi Pierre Tsiava

Vivek Gautam

Dominique Robillard

Philippe Beaudoin

Kenneth Kaiser

Gabriel Constantin

Robert Kalcevic

Pascal Duperray

Alban Poirier

Jacques Mulon

Gérard Le Gouefflec

Jean-François Simon

Nicolas Spiegl

Son Ha Giang

Son-Ha Giang

Rémi Tsiava

Shashwat Bandyo

Grégoire Beasse

Furnace operation includes consecutive cycles of a heating step, a stopping step and a restarting step. The fuel and/or the oxidizing agent is preheated upstream of the furnace by indirect exchange with the discharged fumes through a medium passing through a chamber. A first wall separates the fumes from the medium in the chamber. The fuel and/or oxidizing agent is separated from the medium in the chamber by a second wall. During restarting, the medium's flow rate Dm is regulated to limit the heating rate of the first wall until it reaches the operational temperature at an end thereof.

Method for operating a batch furnace comprising the preheating of a fluid upstream of the furnace

The invention relates to a method and facility for manufacturing a cross-linked fiberglass material, in which melted glass is produced in a melting furnace heated via combustion of a fuel with an oxygen-rich oxidant. The melted glass is converted into glass filaments, the filaments are bonded, a sheet is made from the bonded filaments, and the sheet is then cross-linked. The fumes from the melting furnace are used to preheat a combustion reagent in two steps: a first step in which air is heated via heat exchange with the fumes, and a second step in which the combustion reagent is preheated via heat exchange with the hot air. The air is then used in the cross-linking step of the method for converting the melted glass into a fiberglass material.

Method and facility for manufacturing cross-linked fiberglass material

The invention relates to a method and facility for manufacturing a fiberglass material, in which melted glass is produced in a melting furnace heated via combustion of a fuel with an oxygen-rich oxidant. The fumes generated are used to preheat a combustion reagent in two steps: a first step in which air is heated via heat exchange with the fumes, and a second step in which the combustion reagent is preheated via heat exchange with the hot air. The air is then used in the method for converting the melted glass into a fiberglass material.

Method and facility for manufacturing a fiberglass material

Method for indirectly preheating a fluid upstream of a furnace, wherein the fluid is preheated by indirect heat exchange with fumes discharged from the furnace through a medium in a chamber, and wherein the flow rate of the medium in the chamber is adjusted on the basis of at least one of the following temperatures: the temperature of the discharged fumes, the temperature of the medium in the chamber, the temperature of the preheated fluid, and the temperature of the wall separating the discharged fumes from the medium in the chamber.

Method for preheating a fluid upstream of a furnace

The invention relates to a fiberglass material manufacture method and facility, were in molten glass is converted into fiberglass material via the steps of spinning, drawing, sizing, and collecting, followed by a step of producing a resulting fiberglass material that is then subjected to thermal desizing. The fumes from the melting furnace are used to preheat a combustion reagent from the melting furnace in two steps: a first step in which air is heated via heat exchange with the fumes, and a second step in which the combustion reagent is preheated via heat exchange with the hot air, the air then being used in the step of desizing the fiberglass material.

Fiberglass material manufacture method comprising steps of sizing and desizing, and facility suitable for implementing said method

Combustion method and installation in which an oxygen-rich oxidant is preheated by exchange of heat with a heat-transfer fluid, upstream of the combustion chamber, in which method and installation an auxiliary gas is heated by heat exchange with a first proportion of the hot flue gases discharged from the chamber, and in which method and installation the heat-transfer fluid comprises a mixture of at least a proportion of the heated auxiliary gas with a proportion of hot flue gases.

Combustion method and installation with optimized energy recuperation

Process for heating via oxy-fuel combustion in which a stream of air is heated by means of at least one portion of the residual heat present in the fuel gases discharged from the combustion chamber, at least one portion of said hot air stream is introduced into an oxygen production unit in which a portion of the oxygen present in the hot air stream is extracted by means of one or more ITM, with a first stream of oxygen at high temperature being obtained, said first stream of oxygen is mixed with a second stream of oxygen so as to obtain a total stream of oxygen at a lower temperature than that of the first stream of oxygen, at least one portion of the total stream of oxygen being transported to the combustion chamber and used within as oxygen-rich oxidizer.

Integrated process for oxy-fuel combustion and production of oxygen

Methods and apparatus for controlling the operation of a burner used for heating liquid glass feeders of a glass furnace. A burner is supplied with a fuel and oxygen. An additional gas is injected so that the sum of the oxygen flow, the fuel flow and the additional gas flow is greater than a minimum cooling flow for the burner.

Method of controlling burners for heating liquid glass flow channels

The invention relates to a combustion method which is performed in a furnace that is equipped with energy recovery means and burners, whereby the heat from the combustion fumes is recovered by energy recovery means and said recovered heat is used in order to heat the air. According to the invention, at least part of the burners performs the combustion of an oxygen-rich comburent and a fuel and at least part of the air heated by the energy recovery means is used to heat the oxygen-rich comburent and/or fuel for the burners.

Preheating of fuel and oxidant of oxy-burners, using combustion air preheating installations

A simple, compact burner achieves a more optimal melting of a solid charge followed by performance of combustion under distributed combustion conditions. The burner achieves this by fluidically bending the flame towards the solid charge during a melting phase with an actuating jet of oxidant, redirecting the flame in a direction away from the charge, and staging injection of oxidant among primary and secondary portions during a distributed combustion phase.

Method for melting a solid charge

The invention relates to a method for melting vitrifiable materials in a low-capacity oven, wherein at least part of the melting energy is supplied by two oxy-burners projecting into the melting chamber through the upstream wall and arranged on opposite sides of a vertical plane in which a longitudinal axis of the melting chamber is situated, in such a way as to create two flames, the respective injection axes thereof crossing at a distance from the upstream wall, between &#x2153; and &#xbe; of the length L of the melting chamber.

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Luc Jarry