摘要:
An apparatus for melting and refining a silica-based glass composition includes a vertical first reaction chamber having an input adjacent to a lower end for receiving glass-forming components. The glass-forming components are heated to elevated temperature during upward flow through the vertical first reaction chamber to form a glass precursor melt adjacent to an upper end of the vertical first reaction chamber. A vertical second reaction chamber has an input adjacent to an upper end and an output adjacent to a lower end for delivering glass melt. A cross passage connects the upper end of the vertical first reaction chamber to the upper end of the vertical second reaction chamber such that the precursor melt flows from the vertical first reaction chamber through the cross passage and then through the vertical second reaction chamber to homogenize the precursor melt. Vacuum preferably is applied to the cross passage both to assist upward flow through the vertical first reaction chamber, and to assist refining of the precursor melt during such upward flow and during flow through the cross passage.
摘要:
Controlling foam in apparatus downstream of a melter by adjustment of alkali oxide content in the melter. One method includes feeding a feedstock into a submerged combustion melter (SCM) apparatus having an internal space containing a flowing or non-flowing molten mass of foamed glass comprising molten glass and bubbles entrained therein, the molten mass having glass foam comprising glass foam bubbles on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass. The molten mass from the SCM is routed to a downstream apparatus, stability of the glass foam in the downstream apparatus is observed, and alkali oxide percentage fed to the SCM apparatus is adjusted based on the observation to positively or negatively affect the foam stability. Systems for carrying out the methods, and the products of the methods are also considered novel and inventive.
摘要:
A method for producing a glass includes forming a horizontal stream of molten glass and mixing the stream. The mixing is created by rotatingly driving n shafts, n being a whole number equal to or greater than two, each having an axis, two adjacent shafts being separated by a distance with their axes parallel and with each of the two adjacent shafts connected to a rod located at least in part in the stream and each of the rods having an axis parallel to the axis of the shaft to which it is connected. For the two adjacent axes, the distance between the axis of one rod and the axis of the shaft to which it is connected is in excess of or equal to 9/20 of the distance between the axes of the two shafts. The two adjacent shafts are rotatingly driven in opposite directions with respect to one another.
摘要:
A low infrared absorbing lithium glass includes FeO in the range of 0.0005-0.015 wt. %, more preferably 0.001-0.010 wt. %, and a redox ratio in the range of 0.005-0.15, more preferably in the range of 0.005-0.10. The glass can be chemically tempered and used to provide a ballistic viewing cover for night vision goggles or scope. A method is provided to change a glass making process from making a high infrared absorbing lithium glass having FeO in the range of 0.02 to 0.04 wt. % and a redox ratio in the range of 0.2 to 0.4 to the low infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional oxidizers to the batch materials. A second method is provided to change a glass making process from making a low infrared absorbing lithium glass to the high infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional reducers to the batch material. In one embodiment of the invention the oxidizer is CeO2. An embodiment of the invention covers a glass made according to the method.
摘要:
A method includes a providing a molten glass fiber core and disposing a plurality of nanoparticles that include a transition metal oxide on the molten glass fiber core at or above the softening temperature of the glass fiber core, thereby forming a nanoparticle-laden glass fiber. The plurality of nanoparticles are embedded at the surface of said glass fiber core. A method includes providing a mixture of molten glass and a plurality of nanoparticles. The plurality of nanoparticles include a transition metal. The method further includes forming nanoparticle-laden glass fibers, in which the plurality of nanoparticles are embedded throughout the glass fibers.
摘要:
Glass having an optimized degree of cross-linking of the phosphate component in the glass matrix is provided so that excellent weatherability is achieved. These glasses are fluorophosphate glasses that contain copper oxide as coloring component. The glasses can further contain coloring components and are obtainable in a method that includes a bubbling step.
摘要:
A soda-lime-silica glass for solar collector cover plates and solar mirrors has less than 0.010 weight percent total iron as Fe2O3, a redox ratio of less than 0.350, less than 0.0025 weight percent CeO2, and spectral properties that include a visible transmission, and a total solar infrared transmittance, of greater than 90% at a thickness of 5.5 millimeters, and reduced solarization. In one non-limiting embodiment of invention, the glass is made by heating a pool of molten soda-lime-silica with a mixture of combustion air and fuel gas having an air firing ratio of greater than 11, or an oxygen firing ratio of greater than 2.31. In another non-limiting embodiment of the invention, streams of oxygen bubbles are moved through a pool of molten glass. In both embodiments, the oxygen oxidizes ferrous iron to ferric iron to reduce the redox ratio.
摘要翻译:用于太阳能收集器盖板和太阳能反射镜的钠钙石英玻璃具有小于0.010重量%的铁,如Fe 2 O 3,氧化还原比小于0.350,小于0.0025重量%的CeO 2,以及包括可见透射, 和总太阳红外透射率,厚度为5.5毫米时大于90%,减少了日晒。 在本发明的一个非限制性实施方案中,玻璃通过用燃烧空气和空气燃烧比大于11的燃料气体的混合物加热熔融的钠钙二氧化硅池,或者燃烧比大于11 超过2.31。 在本发明的另一非限制性实施方案中,氧气泡流移动通过熔融玻璃池。 在两个实施方案中,氧氧化亚铁铁至三价铁以降低氧化还原比。
摘要:
The invention relates to a furnace for the continuous melting of a composition comprising silica, the said furnace comprising at least two tanks in series, said tanks each comprising at least one burner submerged in the melt. The invention also relates to the process for manufacturing compositions comprising silica using the furnace, the silica and the fluxing agent for the silica being introduced into the first tank. The invention makes it possible to produce glass color frits, tile frits and enamel with a high productivity, low temperatures and short transition times.
摘要:
The invention relates to the technology of manufacturing mineral fibres, glass wool or rock wool and, more specifically, to the recycling of scrap in the manufacturing plants. The scrap, reduced to fragments, is introduced into the delivery channel through which the molten glassy material passes before reaching the fiberizing machine. The device of the invention includes a pressure-isolating feed system. Large quantities of scrap may be introduced without disturbing the manufacture of the mineral wool.
摘要:
A glass bottle forming system is described in which a main glass melter is connected to a forehearth with a fairly conventional feeder provided at the delivery end of the forehearth. The feeder opening in the bottom of the forehearth is closed by a first orifice member through which a molten core glass will flow. Beneath the first orifice there is positioned a second orifice member that has an orifice that is slightly larger than the orifice in the first orifice member. A small melter contains a glass of essentially the same composition as that in the main melter, but with a coefficient of expansion slightly less than that of the core glass. This lower expansion glass is fed to the second orifice member so that it can flow out of the orifice with the core glass in surrounding relationship with respect thereto. The skin glass melter is connected to the second orifice member by a gravity feed system in which the connection is thermally controlled so that the viscosity of the two glasses are maintained essentially the same. Two embodiments of the skin melter and the second orifice are disclosed. In one embodiment the second orifice is vertically adjustable so as to vary the volume of skin glass flow relative to the core glass flow. The second embodiment has the second orifice supporting an annular bushing that is vertically adjustable and it cooperates with the bottom of the upper orifice member to regulate the flow of glass into surrounding relationship to the core glass coming through the first orifice member.