Abstract:
The device for producing a glass melt from a glass batch has a melting chamber (1), peripheral walls (1.1 - 1.4) and a floor (1.5); a delivery channel (2) which is located under the floor (1.5) of the melting chamber (1), which is conductively connected to the molten bath (3) by an inlet opening (2.3) and which has an outlet opening (2.4) for the finished melt in the area of a peripheral wall (1.1) of the melting chamber (1); and at least one heating device for heating the melting bath (3). The invention is characterised by the following features: the inlet opening (2.3) of the delivery channel (2) is located in a central area of the floor (1.5) of the melting chamber (1); the delivery channel (2) has a cover (2.2) which is located at least approximately at the height of the floor (1.5) of the melting chamber (1), or a cover (4) which covers part of the liquid level (3.1) of the melting bath (3); or is characterised by an additional heating element (5) in the area of the delivery channel (2) or is characterised by a heated vault (20) in the area above the delivery channel (2) and the outlet opening, for forming a blank glass surface (21) where no glass batch is introduced.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the production mineral wool products from basalt-bearing rock ( basalt, andesite-basalt, andesite, gabbro etc) which can be used in the building industry, in medicine, for manufacturing furniture, in chemical industry for insulating high temperature equipment. The inventive method for producing mineral wool products consists in loading a fine basalt-bearing rock in to a melting furnace, melting, cooling the melt to a temperature of production of a fiber, discharging said melt from the furnace, forming and deposing said fiber by means of the separation thereof followed by the production of the material. The basalt-bearing rock is pre-heated before it is loaded into the furnace. The melting is carried out in a bottom-electrode arc furnace fitted with carbon electrodes. Before cooling, the melt is heated to the temperature exceeding the fusion temperature and ranging between 50 DEG C and 250 DEG C in addition to being conditioned in a stabilizing chamber of the furnace in order to obtain an average composition of a glass mass and an iron melt. Afterwards, the iron melt is evacuated. The inventive production line for producing mineral wool is provided with a heat exchanger connected to the dosing mechanism and to the inside of the furnace. The melting furnace is embodied in the form of a bottom-electrode arc furnace fitted with the carbon electrodes and with the chamber stabilizing the average composition of the glass mass and mounted on the lower part of the furnace. Said stabilizing chamber is also used for cooling the melt to the temperature of production of the fibers and is fitted, in a bottom part thereof with a drawhole for evacuating the iron melt and the drawhole for melted glass mass.
Abstract:
Apparatus (10) and a method for vitrifying hazardous waste includes a melting vessel (12) in which a stirrer (38) mixes hazardous waste and any other necessary components for forming a glassy mixture upon heating while an electrical current is applied across the melting vessel and the stirrer to provide electrical current flow, and a metallic containment vessel (46) of the apparatus receives the melting vessel so as to receive and contain any material that exits the melting vessel upon failure. Any failure of the melting vessel (12) is detected by a sensor (48). The containment vessel (46) is preferably hermetically sealed around the melting vessel (12) to contain gases as well as any melted material received from the failed melting vessel (12). The sensing of the failure can be either by a pressure change in the hermetically sealed chamber (58) or by sensing of the presence of material received by the containment vessel (46) from the failed melting vessel (12) such as by an electrical circuit type detection.
Abstract:
A glass heating method and apparatus, such as a glass melting furnace (10) or a forehearth, utilizing a refractory lining (20, 21 and 23) and electrically energized heating electrodes (30 and 32). The refractory lining (20, 21 and 23) is an erosion resistant material, preferably a chromic oxide refractory, having an electrical resistivity which is less than the resistivity of the molten glass, preferably an E glass, which is being heated. To avoid short-circuiting through the low resistance refractory (20, 21 and 23), the refractory (20, 21 or 23) interposed between electrodes of opposite polarity is cooled to a temperature less than the temperature of the molten glass and at which the resistivity of the refractory (20, 21 or 23) is materially increased. Where the electrodes (30 or 32) of opposite polarity are carried by opposing side walls (11), the end and/or side walls of the apparatus are cooled. Where the electrodes are all carried by a single wall, that wall is cooled.
Abstract:
A melt for use in the production of man-made vitreous fibres may be formed in a circulating combustion chamber (20) by melting particulate material. The material is collected in a base region (26) of the combustion chamber, where it can be heated using submerged heating means (40). The submerged heating increases the homogeneity of the melt within the melt pool (30), the increase in homogeneity being encouraged by a relatively long average residence time for mineral material in the chamber (20) of at least 15 minutes.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for treating organic waste (D), fragmented solids and/or liquids, using a single reactor (1) containing a metal bath (V) topped with a gas phase (G), including incineration, in the presence of oxygen, of said waste (D), at the surface (S) of said metal bath (V); and vitrification of said waste (D) incinerated in said metal bath (V). Said method is characterised in that, besides the oxygen delivered as oxidizer in said gas phase (G), oxygen is injected into said metal bath (V), in sufficient amount to minimise, even eliminate, metal formation in said metal bath (V); advantageously, in an amount sufficient to minimise, even eliminate, metal formation in said metal bath (V) and ensure moderate stirring of said metal bath (V). The invention also concerns a device for treating, by incineration and vitrification, organic waste (D), fragmented solids and/or liquids, for implementing said method.
Abstract:
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.
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:
An electric resistance melting furnace for vitrifiable compositions such as glass, enamel or ceramic has a melting end (1) which rotates around the vertical axis and a stationary top furnace (4) which may be continuously or intermittently operated and which allows a fast and clean exchange of products.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a relatively compact self-powered, tunable waste conversion system and apparatus which has the advantage of highly robust operation which provides complete or substantially complete conversion of a wide range of waste streams into useful gas and a stable, nonleachable solid product at a single location with greatly reduced air pollution to meet air quality standards. The system provides the capability for highly efficient conversion of waste into high quality combustible gas and for high efficiency conversion of the gas into electricity by utilizing a high efficiency gas turbine or by an internal combustion engine. The solid product can be suitable for various commercial applications. Alternatively, the solid product stream, which is a safe, stable material, may be dipsosed of without special considerations as hazardous material. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the arc plasma furnace and joule heated melter are formed as a fully integrated unit with a common melt pool having circuit arrangements for the simultaneous independently controllable operation of boththe arc plasma and the joule heated portions of the unit without interference with one another. The preferred configuration of this embodiment of the invention utilizes two arc plasma electrodes with an elongated chamber for the molten pool such that the molten pool is capable of providing conducting paths between electrodes. The apparatus may additionally be employed with reduced or without further use of the gases generated by the conversion process. The apparatus may be employed as a self-powered or net electricity producing unit where use of an auxiliary fuel provides the required level of electricity production.