83rd Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 271

The 83rd Conference on Glass Problems (GPC) was organized by the Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, The New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, NY, and The Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC), Westerville, OH. The Program Director was S. K. Sundaram, Inamori Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, The New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. The Conference Director was Bob Lipetz, Executive Director, GMIC, Westerville, OH. The GPC Advisory Board (AB) included the Program Director, the Conference Director, and several industry representatives. The Board assembled the technical program. Donna Banks of the GMIC coordinated the events and provided support. It started with a full-day plenary session followed by technical sessions.

Foreword vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Plenary 1 Evolution of Refractory in the Glass Industry 3 Stefan Postrach and Ignacio Ramirez How Big Is My Carbon Footprint…Revisited 15 Christopher J. Hoyle Glass Melting of the Future 23 H. P. H. Muijsenberg, Hans Mahrenholtz, G. Neff, S. Hakes, C. Jatzwauk, and A. Birle Quality 43 Digital Measurement of Cord Stresses in Container Glass 45 Henning Katte The Electrical Systems Will Become the Gas Skits of the Future 59 René Meuleman and Christian Collombet Melting And Control 61 All-Electric-Forehearth Design with Zero Emissions 63 Christoph Jatzwauk, Stuart Hakes, and Hans Mahrenholtz The Fully Compartmentalized Glass Furnace 69 Adam Polcyn 5-Year Operating Experience with the Optimelt™ Heat Recovery Technology on a Tableware Furnace 79 M. van Valburg, H. Kobayashi, and A. Aluri Modern Controller and Sensor Technology to Achieve Optimum Energy Efficiency 87 Andries Habraken, Sjoerd Stelwagen, and Rui Carneiro Refractories and Raw Materials 95 How Will the Electrification of Glass Furnaces Impact Refractories? 97 Isabelle Cabodi, Isabell Gross, Pierrick Vespa, Michel Gaubil, and Stephane Schaller Future-Proofing Your Dust Collection System Best Practices in Dust Collection for the Glass Industry 105 Alysha Yinger and Kyle Billie Combustion and Sustainability 111 Partial Oxy-Fuel Conversion of Glass Forehearths: A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce CO2 Emissions by 50% 113 J. Pedel, G. Kulkarni, S. Vijayan, and R. Nath Advances in Glass Industry Energy Savings using Heat Oxycombustion 119 James McAndrew, Kenneth Kaiser, Bhupesh Dhungel, Jiefu Ma, Chendhil Periasamy, Rémi Tsiava, Abou Ba, Mohand Amirat, Niomar Marcano, Xavier Paubel, Tâm Lâm, Luc Jarry, Emre Dumankaya, Nes¸et Arzan, Bahtiyar Dalgıç, and Erdinc¸ S¸ükrü Blue and Green Hydrogen Production, Distribution, and Supply for the Glass Industry and the Potential Impact of Hydrogen Fuel Blending in Glass Furnaces 127 Michael J. Gallagher, Ashwin Vinod, and Roger A. Dewing Design and Implementation of Optifire™ Flex Burner for Foam Reduction in Oxy-Fuel Glass Furnaces 137 Robert L. Bell, Geert Cnossen, Robert Miller, Gaurav Kulkarni, and Hisashi Kobayashi