Glass Melting Technology: A Technical and Economic ... - OSTI

RAY RICHARDS holds a BS in chemistry and mechanical engineering and MS degree
in metallurgy. He has 53 years of industrial R&D experience, including more than 40
years in the glass and vitrification industries. His glass experience includes 10 years of
mold, electrode, and platinum metallurgy; 10 years of math, fluid modeling, and
extensive field measurements of conventional melting furnaces; and over 10 years in
developing rapid melting and refining systems and batch preheating. His interests remain
in advanced glass melting systems, and he is affiliated with Associated Technical
Consultants.
DEAN SANNER holds a BS degree in ceramic engineering from the University of
Illinois and MBA from the University of Toledo. At Owens Illinois he has worked as
glass technologist; environmental engineer; financial analyst, corporate planning;
business planning manager, international division; administrative manager (Nippon
Glass, Japan); manager, mergers and acquisitions. At Techneglas, he was chief financial
officer.
WALT SCOTT graduated from Alfred University with a BS degree in ceramic
engineering in 1963 and began employment with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in
Cumberland, Maryland. At PPG he held positions of increased responsibility in flat glass
manufacturing, specializing in hot-end technology and operations. From 1982 to 1989 he
was manager of technology for the PPG P-10 process when he managed a group of
manufacturing engineers and coordinated the PPG technical community for the process
scale-up to manufacturing. He became plant manager of the new Perry, Georgia, plant in
1989. He returned to Pittsburgh as manager of technology, trade, and automotive
products, which covered the technical needs for all PPG float glass operations, a position
from which he retired April 1, 2002.
RAY VISKANTA is the W.F.M. Goss Distinguished Professor of Engineering, emeritus,
at Purdue University. He obtained his BSME, MSME, and PhD degrees from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University. For the past 40 years,
he has conducted theoretical research in heat transfer and radiation transfer as well as
fundamental and applied problems related to glass melting, processing, and forming.
Under the sponsorship of several US glass manufacturers he and his students were the
first to develop three-dimensional glass melting furnace simulation models, including air
bubbling, electric boosting, batch melting, and seed transport. He directed research of
over 63 PhD and 45 MS students and over 40 post-doctoral researchers. His numerous
professional recognitions include an honorary doctor of engineering degree and
membership in the National Academy of Engineering (1987).
DAN WISHNICK holds a BS in ceramic engineering from Rutgers University and has
more than 20 years of experience in the glass industry, including engineering and
manufacturing positions with Owens-Illinois, Guardian Industries, and Ford Motor Co.,
Glass Division. Currently with Eclipse Inc., he is in charge of the Combustion Tec brand
and is responsible for global glass activities. He is associate member representative on the
board of directors for the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council.
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