Method and apparatus for melting glass batch

Patent · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:866628

Fassbender, Alexander G ^[1]; Walkup, Paul C ^[2]; Mudge, Lyle K ^[2]

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1. Kennewick, WA
2. Richland, WA

A glass melting system involving preheating, precalcining, and prefluxing of batch materials prior to injection into a glass furnace. The precursors are heated by convection rather than by radiation in present furnaces. Upon injection into the furnace, batch materials are intimately coated with molten flux so as to undergo or at least begin the process of dissolution reaction prior to entering the melt pool.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• Assignee: Battelle Development Corporation (Columbus, OH)
• Patent Number(s): US 4752314
• OSTI ID: 866628
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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