Webinar series starts with oxy-fuel melting
Following the success of its webinar series in 2020, GlassTrend’s first 2021 webinar session on 26 January is entitled‘Oxy-fuel glass melting – A path to sustainability and lower CO2 emissions’by Shrikar Chakravarti and Sho Kobayashi of Linde plc.
Since 1991, over 300 commercial glass melting furnaces worldwide have been successfully converted to oxy-fuel firing. Despite the demonstrated benefits of oxy-fuel use in glass furnaces and the significant penetration of oxy-fuel in the specialty glass furnaces, only about 60 container and float glass furnaces have been converted to oxy-fuel firing. Meanwhile, most large soda-lime glass furnaces are still fired with air using large regenerators to recover waste heat in the flue gas.