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Dear Madame or Sir,
“OPTIMELTTM,
to boldly go where no glassmaker has gone
before”.
This is Frank´s slogan for this project. Libbey
continuously needs to improve their process to
lower production Costs. OPTIMELT technology
provides an innovative process to manufacture
glass using less energy, emitting less CO2 and
NOx, lowering operational costs and helping to
address the challenges Europe is facing.
Frank
Schuurmans, Batch and furnace engineer EMEA
The L1 furnace has been designed to use Oxy-fuel
combustion technology in any case. The furnace can
run under OPTIMELT or under classical Oxy-Fuel. By
designing the L1 furnace this way ensures that there
is no loss of production. In both cases correct
Oxygen quantity and quality will be provided on-site
Oxygen installation.
On-site
Oxygen plant in place
Once the steel structure was in place the project
team began to install refractory blocks according to
furnace design.
L1 refractory election was made based on previous
experiences, considering data from OPTIMELT beta
test system running since 2014 at PAVISA provided
enough data to select the most adequate refractory
type.
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L1
furnace with OPTIMELT system
at the left of the image
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L1
steel structure supporting
refractory blocks
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Refractory
waiting to be installed |
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Best regards.
Joaquín
Joaquín de Diego Rincón
Combustion Market
Applications
European Marketing Manager
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