75th Conference on Glass Problems

Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii GLASS MELTING Effect of Dissolved Water on Physical Properties of Soda-Lime- 3 Silicate Glasses Udaya K. Vempati and Terence J. Clark Comparison of SEM/EDX Analysis to Petrographic Techniques for 13 Identifying the Composition of Stones in Glass Brian Collins, Gary Smay, and Henry Dimmick FORMING Multi Gob Weight Production 29 Xu Ding, Jonathan Simon, Angelo Dinitto, and Andreas Helfenstein Closed Loop Control of Glass Container Forming 37 Jonathan Simon and Andreas Helfenstein Hard Glass--Commercial Progress of Thermally Strengthened 55 Container Glass Ken Bratton, Steven Brown, Tim Ringuette, and Dubravko Stuhne ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL Oxygen Enhanced NOx Reduction (OENR) Technology for Glass 69 Furnaces J. Pedel, H. Kobayashi, J. de Diego Rincón, U. Iyoha, E. Evenson, G. Cnossen, and P. Zucca U.S. Air Regulations Involving Glass Manufacturing 85 Steven B. Smith New Combustion Technique for Reducing NOx and CO2 Emissions 93 from a Glass Furnace R.S. Pont, N. Fricker, I. Alliat, Y. Agniel, and L. Kaya Environment and Energy: Flue Gas Treatment and Production of 107 Electrical Power in the Glass Industry Alessandro Monteforte and Francesco Zatti OPTIMELT(TM) Regenerative Thermo-Chemical Heat Recovery for 113 Oxy-Fuel Glass Furnaces A. Gonzalez, E. Solorzano, C. Lagos, G. Lugo, S. Laux, K.T. Wu, R.L. Bell, A. Francis, and H. Kobayashi REFRACTORIES Wear of Basic Refractories in Glass Tank Regenerators 123 David J. Michael, H. Edward Wolfe, and Laura A. Lowe Modern and Competitive Regenerator Designs for Glass Industry 143 Sébastien Bourdonnais SENSORS AND CONTROL Detection of Early Stage Glass Penetration and Weak Refractory 157 Spots on Furnace Walls Yakup Bayram, Alexander C. Ruege, Eric K. Walton, Peter Hagan, Elmer Sperry, Dan Cetnar, Robert Burkholder, Gokhan Mumcu, and Steve Weiser Fast and Objective Measurement of Residual Stresses in Glass 165 Henning Katte Feeder Expert Control System for Improved Containers 177 Fred Aker MODELING 3-D Transient Non-Isothermal CFD Modeling for Gob Formation 185 Jian Jiao, Oluyinka Bamiro, David Lewis, and Xuelei Zhu Modeling of Heat Transfer and Gas Flows in Glass Furnace 201 Regenerators Oscar Verheijen, Andries Habraken, and Heike Gramberg Energy Analysis for Preheating and Modeling of Heat Transfer from 207 Flue Gas to a Granule Liming Shi, Udaya Vempati, and Sutapa Bhaduri Laboratory Facilities for Simulation of Essential Process Steps in 223 Industrial Glass Furnaces Mathi Rongen, Mathieu Hubert, Penny Marson, Stef Lessmann, and Oscar Verheijen Heat Transfer in Glass Quenching for Glass Tempering 235 Carlos J. Garciamoreno, David A. Everest, and Arvind Atreya Author Index 253