Steam generator using waste heat from glass furnace

Patent · Tue Dec 07 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6435025

Banfi, J; Lontay, Z; Vadas, Z; Wenzel, B

Flue gases from a glass-melting furnace, after passing through an elevated recuperator, descend through a vertical cooling column into a horizontal convective boiler before being exhausted into a smokestack. Entering water, circulating essentially in counterflow to the flue gases, is preheated in an exit compartment of the boiler and passes via a flow regulator into the main boiler chamber and thence into a bank of vertical pipes on the periphery of the column. On rising through these pipes, the water is partly converted to steam which is superheated in an entrance compartment of the boiler before being fed to a load, the remaining water being returned to the boiler chamber.

• Assignee: Energiagazdalkodasi Intezet (Hungary)
• Patent Number(s): US 4362129
• OSTI ID: 6435025
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320304* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Waste Heat Recovery & Utilization
BOILERS
COOLING SYSTEMS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
FLUE GAS
FURNACES
GASEOUS WASTES
GLASS
STEAM GENERATORS
VAPOR GENERATORS
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WASTES