METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECYCLING SCRAP MINERAL FIBERS
    1.
    发明授权
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECYCLING SCRAP MINERAL FIBERS 失效
    方法和设备进行回收矿物纤维

    公开(公告)号:EP0574522B1

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-25

    申请号:EP92908490.3

    申请日:1992-03-03

    申请人: STIR-MELTER INC.

    发明人: RICHARDS, Ray, S.

    摘要: A method and apparatus for recycling scrap mineral fibers (42) having an organic binder coating in a highly stirred glass melter (16) wherein the organic binder coating is decomposed by applying heat. Carbon from the organic binder coating is oxidized on the surface of the glass melt (17). After oxidizing the carbon, the glass fibers are dispersed into the melt. Residual carbon may be oxidized after inclusion in the melt. Purified glass suitable for forming glass fibers is further processed by conventional glass fiber forming equipment. The method may also include the step of pre-processing the glass fiber scrap by shredding or pulverizing to facilitate feeding the glass fiber scrap to the highly stirred glass melt. The apparatus according to the present invention is preferably a stirred melter (16) having electrical joule effect heating. An impeller (22) in the glass melt stirs the melt at a high rate of speed to provide a draw down effect pulling fibers into melt.

    MAKING POROUS MINERAL FIBERS
    3.
    发明公开
    MAKING POROUS MINERAL FIBERS 失效
    制备多孔矿物纤维

    公开(公告)号:EP0757662A1

    公开(公告)日:1997-02-12

    申请号:EP95916336.0

    申请日:1995-04-17

    申请人: STIR-MELTER INC.

    IPC分类号: B01F15 C03B3 C03B5 C03B37 B01F7

    摘要: The mineral fiber forming apparatus (10) having electrodes (14) for heating heat softenable mineral material to form a molten mineral mass is disclosed. Organically-coated glass fiber scrap and cullet are supplied to a vessel (12) providing the heat softenable mineral material. An impeller (16) turbulently mixes the molten mineral mass dispersing batch into the molten mineral mass and converting water in the molten mineral bath to steam. Molten mineral material formed by the appartus (10) includes small seeds and gaseous occlusions. The molten mineral material is fed from an outlet port (24) in the vessel (12) to a rotary spinner (30) which forms hollow mineral fibers (32) having gaseous occlusions of between 1 % and 10 % by volume by centrifuging the molten mineral material.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WASTE VITRIFICATION
    5.
    发明授权
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WASTE VITRIFICATION 失效
    方法和装置玻璃浪费。

    公开(公告)号:EP0526583B1

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-02

    申请号:EP91911432.2

    申请日:1991-04-17

    申请人: STIR-MELTER INC.

    发明人: RICHARDS, Ray, S.

    摘要: A waste vitrification apparatus (10) having rotatable mixer impeller (16) functioning as a shaft electrode (60) and metallic vessel (14) functioning as a vessel electrode (62). A stream (12) of waste material and vitrifiable material are mixed and melted in the vessel (14) for vitrification. The waste vitrification method converts a feed stream (12) by mixing the feed stream into a glass melt (13) and melting glass batch of the feed stream (12) to form a foamy mass. The stream is dispersed by the impeller (16) to form a foam which is then densified in a settling zone (22), recovered through a spout (24) and solidified in storage containers. Means are provided to adjust the location of the mixing impeller (16) in the vessel (14) to change the depth of the settling zone (22). The impeller (16) is mounted on a drive shaft (18) having a recirculating coolant flow.