Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of amorphous material from non sorted wastes, as well as from slags and fly ashes. It comprises the steps of drying the wastes by heat treating them at 600-1200 DEG C, melting them at 1300-1600 DEG C, transforming the crystal structure of the melt into an amorphous glassy mass by fast cooling thereof in water, and recovering said amorphous material. Complementary correcting oxides are further added during the heat treating step and/or the melting step. The amorphous material obtained can be used for the preparation of various building materials.
Abstract:
Material, such as, for example, sealed double bags of asbestos (24) containing waste or ash from infectious waste or toxic material or radioactive waste, is transferred into a glass melt of a furnace (10). Gas bubbles released into the melt form a gas curtain (12) which causes enhanced mixing of the material to accelerate the dissolution of the components of the added material (7). The presence of the gas bubbles (12) reduces the cross section of the molten glass (32) through which current passes, which in turn increases the electrical resistance of the glass melt (32) or power density at constant current. A highly oxidizing hot region is produced under the location where the material is introduced into the furnace (10). Drawn off glass is shaped and quenched into at least two sizes of approximate spheres (23). The spheres (23) are cooled sufficiently fast to be thermally tempered and have a surface compressive strength level above 5000 psi.
Abstract:
A production apparatus comprising a melting crucible (2) for heating and melting a glass, a nozzle (2A) which is disposed under the melting crucible (2) and through which a molten glass (4) residing in the melting crucible (2) is dropped, and a glass-drop-receiving part (11) disposed under the nozzle (2A) and filled with a cooling liquid (150) for cooling glass droplets (10) dropped from the nozzle (2A), wherein the cooling liquid (150) comprises a material which vaporizes due to the heat of the glass droplets (10) to form a bubble layer surrounding the periphery of each glass droplet (10) until the glass droplet (10) is cooled to or below the glass transition temperature in the cooling liquid (150). Also provided is a production process employing the apparatus. Glass spheres with a satisfactory sphericity can be continuously and efficiently produced at low cost.
Abstract:
An ash melting device, wherein a crucible is used for the innermost layer of a furnace body to reduce the wear of a furnace material so as to reduce the size of the furnace body, the crucible is formed in a cartridge for extremely simplified replacement, mainly the mixture of petroleum gas such as propane and butane with oxygen gas or air is used as fuel for perfect combustion and a temperature control is performed sufficiently, and a means is adopted to improve a thermal efficiency by improving the positions of a burner and an ash inlet, whereby the control of the temperature inside the furnace can be facilitated, the wear of the furnace body can be reduced, and the device can be repaired easily and reduced in size.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of reclaiming hazardous inorganic wastes to produce an environmentally benign abrasive for use in loose grain processes, as a coated or bonded abrasive, or as a polishing grain. A tough and useful abrasive, with an MOH hardness of 7 to 8, is manufactured from emission control dusts of the aluminum industry or sludges from other industries, and may include small amounts of lead and cadmium oxides as toughening agents. The abrasive particles are sized by air sifting or by water sedimentation separating methods. The process for the manufacture of abrasive material comprises the steps of removing soluble salts from a waste stream by hot water extraction; using a computer matrix to group the waste stream into different batches for mixing with other glass-making materials to form a batch mixture; oxidizing the organic compounds contained in the batched mixture; melting the batch mixture to form a glasseous substance; and fritting the glasseous substance to form the abrasive. The process preferably uses a glass melter that will oxidize organics; a scrubber to recapture vaporized heavy metal oxides and particles of the glass-making materials; and an oxygen injection system to ensure thorough burning of organics. Certain sodium compounds may be added to reduce the melting point of the batch mixture.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus provide for: feeding glass batch material into a plasma containment vessel; directing one or more sources of plasma gas into an inner volume of the plasma containment vessel in such a way that the plasma gas swirls in a cyclonic fashion within the plasma containment vessel; and applying first and second electromagnetic fields to the plasma gas to facilitate production of a plasma plume within the inner volume of the plasma containment vessel, where the plasma plume is of a generally cylindrical configuration, and is of sufficient thermal energy to cause the glass batch material to thermally react.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus provide for: feeding glass batch material into a plasma containment vessel in such a way that the glass batch material is dispensed as a sheet of glass batch material particles; directing one or more sources of plasma gas into the inner volume of the plasma containment vessel in such a way that the plasma gas enters the plasma containment vessel as at least one sheet of plasma gas; and applying an alternating electric field to facilitate production of a plasma plume within the inner volume of the plasma containment vessel, where the plasma plume is of dimensions sufficient to envelope the sheet of glass batch material particles, and is of sufficient thermal energy to cause the glass batch material to react and melt thereby forming substantially homogeneous, spheroid-shaped glass intermediate particles.
Abstract:
Proposed is a process and device for the manufacture of glass beads by solidifying molten glass whose transformation point lies at a temperature or in a temperature range TG. In order to ensure high quality with respect to the bead shape and to ensure a narrow bead-size distribution, the invention calls for the molten glass to be stressed thermally or chemically, the solidified glass to be broken into pieces and the pieces of glass to be melted and to travel unconstrained along a path of length such that the surface tension of the molten pieces of glass causes them to turn into glass beads, which are subsequently cooled.
Abstract:
A method of preparing a glass granulate (1) for use in manufacturing a foam glass pellet (3), a method of making the foam glass pellet (3), and an oven (2) for making the foam glass pellet(3). The granulate (1) is made by crushing glass into a powder, mixing an expanding agent into the powder, and sintering the mixture in a sintering oven into a solid block at a temperature below the reaction temperature of the expanding agent. The block is crushed into granulates and separated according to fraction size. The granulates (1) are melted in an expansion oven (2) above the reaction temperature of the expanding agent. The oven (2) has means, e.g. downward angled vibrating plates (16), to keep the granulates (1) in constant and independent motion during the heating.
Abstract:
Es wird eine Silikatglaskeramik aus SiO 2 mit einem Gehalt an Al 2 O 3 als Dotiermittel beschrieben, welche bis zu einer Temperatur von 1600 °C eine hohe Formstabilität aufweist. Die Keramik weist einen Querschnitt auf, der zwischen einer Oberfläche zur gegenüberliegenden Oberfläche gebildet ist. Der Gehalt des Dotiermittels Al 2 O 3 weist über den Querschnitt einen Konzentrationsgradienten von mindestens größer/gleich 0 Ma% bis maximal 7 Ma% auf.