Glass manufacturing – Processes – With measuring – sensing – inspecting – indicating – or testing
Patent
1991-04-23
1992-04-07
Lindsay, Robert L.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
With measuring, sensing, inspecting, indicating, or testing
65 27, 65134, 65335, C03B 524
Patent
active
051024390
ABSTRACT:
A method for making better quality molten glass in a glass melter, the glass having the desired viscosity and, preferably, also the desired resistivity so that the glass melt can be established effectively and the product of the glass melter will have the desired level of quality. The method includes the adjustment of the composition of the glass constituents that are fed into the melter in accordance with certain correlations that reliably predict the viscosity and resistivity from the melter temperature and the melt composition, then heating the ingredients to the melter's operating temperature until they melt and homogenize. The equations include the calculation of a "non-bridging oxygen" term from the numbers of moles of the various ingredients, and then the determination of the viscosity and resistivity from the operating temperature of the melter and the non-bridging oxygen term.
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Constant Richard E.
Dixon Harold M.
Lindsay Robert L.
Moser William R.
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