Glass manufacturing – Processes – Fining or homogenizing molten glass
Patent
1997-09-05
2000-08-29
Silverman, Stanley S.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
Fining or homogenizing molten glass
651352, 651359, 651362, 651363, 65355, 65356, 432120, 432159, 432195, C03B 516
Patent
active
06109062&
ABSTRACT:
This apparatus is a furnace for heating molten material which employs oxygen-fuel burner assemblies. Preferably, the assemblies are submerged in the molten material. They are water cooled top down units with burner nozzles being off-set from the supply column. The apparatus utilizes one or more burners for each top down supply column. The supply column and attached burners can be rotated or moved in a manner to avoid the open chimney effect seen with fixed air-fuel burners of the prior art. These burners with an off-set nozzle like the letter L are rotated at high speed or oscillated to distribute the combustion in the form of gas bubbles or a gas curtain. In another embodiment, the oxy-fuel burners are not submerged. The nozzles are aimed at unmelted batch or the upper surface of the molten material for controlled splashing.
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Colaianni Michael P.
Silverman Stanley S.
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