Saint Gobain Isover

Sébastien Chesnel

Oleg Boulanov

Yannick Lefrere

Antoine Guillet

David Galley

Frédéric Lopepe

Julien Marie

Alexandre Martin

Guillaume Dupeux

Antony Vispo

Andrea Ranzani Da Costa

An installation for melting a composition of raw materials, suitable for obtaining glass wool, textile glass yarns and/or flat glass, includes a melting chamber equipped with at least one submerged burner, wherein the melting chamber is defined by side walls made of refractory material and a bare metal bottom traversed by a network of pipes adapted for the circulation of a cooling fluid.

High-efficiency furnace

A batch charger includes a barrel defining a direction X of charging a glass forming batch into the furnace, and a mechanical assembly provided with a member for conveying the batch to the furnace in the charging direction X, this conveying member being at least partially arranged in the barrel, and a motorized unit for driving the conveying member. The batch charger includes a mechanical assembly translatably mobile relative to the barrel, in the charging direction X.

Translatably mobile batch charger

Growing community of inventors

Angouleme, France

Sébastien Chesnel