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Glass Melting Technology: A Technic
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Disclaimer This document was prepar
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Glass Melting Technology: A Technic
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cyclical economy. Specialty glass m
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Reference The report is supplemente
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Preface The glass industry is under
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While this section was not a major
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5. All traditional glass segments a
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• Energy issues Glass melting is
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The issue of funding for research a
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Chapter I Technical Assessment of G
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process when it introduced continuo
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Figure I.1. Quality, Energy, Throug
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credible forecasts that energy cost
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Capital-intensive manufacturing bus
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silica sand with a variety of indus
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I.4. Motivation to advance melting
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would be possible with a more detai
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efining, higher performance refract
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A major regional producer, the Unit
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continues to operate using technolo
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The percentage used for batch melti
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having fewer producers of major com
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Flat glass Forecasters predict an a
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glass fiber in some applications an
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With the high capital cost of new g
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The economic viability of electric
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development and capital investment
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investment of the traditional glass
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and increase cooperation on the hig
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The melting processes for silica-ba
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In the regenerative furnace, two re
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• Unit melter The unit melter is
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melter. Detailed designs were to be
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Project Team Elliott Levine Brad Ri
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Figure 3.B.1. High-Intensity Plasma
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Key innovative components of this p
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glass fibers at a location operated
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Environmental Impacts The plasma ar
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• Pressed/Blown Glass Current Siz
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The major goal of the plasma progra
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operations with minimum capital cos
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However, the fundamental question r
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control per mixer will optimize the
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A. Literature and Patent Review—G
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A variety of products with differen
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steel walls, minimizing pressure lo
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Innovative refining concepts includ
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Appendix A1 Categorization of Liter
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Appendix C Contributors and Sponsor
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C.4. Special Contributors Elliott L
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Appendix D Technology Resource Dire
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Bamford, C. R., Colour Generation a
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Charles River Associates Incorporat
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Gushchin, S. N., V. B. Kutin, and P
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Krause, W., “Glass-melting Strate
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Nemec, L., “Energy Consumption in
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“Standard Terminology of Glass an
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Tables Table II.1. Key End-Use Mark
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Energy considerations for glassmaki
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Segmentation of glass industry, 30-